Gnoomes' New Album 'Losey': Seven Songs Written After Leaving Russia

Russian duo Gnoomes — Sasha and Masha Piankova, whose sound has been described as sitting between techno and shoegaze, a style they call "stargaze" — address life after leaving their home country on the 2026 album Losey. The pair relocated to rural Slovenia following a break with conditions inside Russia, living in semi-seclusion while completing the seven-track record. In an interview with Far Out Magazine, Sasha described leaving Russia as "not just a political decision, but a nervous-system decision."

How it was made: the one outside sound came from Perm

Losey was recorded almost entirely inside the duo's home, with no outside studio sessions. The single exception is drums, recorded in Perm, Russia by former band member Pasha and sent back to the pair — the only element on the record that came from outside their closed-off world.

Sasha said the constraints forced the two to find new ways of working together, both musically and in daily life, calling the process "deeply therapeutic." The semi-isolation of rural Slovenia, they said, eased a long-carried background anxiety.

The songs and the sound

The title track "Losey" keeps Gnoomes' usual acid-tinged rhythm, with hazy synths and vocal harmonies pointing toward the threshold between insomnia and sleep. "Satan's Ball" builds on a similar pulse with a gothic edge, while "Shakshuka and Pie" draws melodically on Paul McCartney and is described by the duo as a "dada pop daydream."

The music video for "Losey" is edited from years of iPhone footage shot by the duo, blended with imagined places, memories and hallucinations. Masha said the song is about the strange threshold before sleep — the moment the brain overloads and reality starts to slip.

From 2024 to now

Gnoomes previously described their music to Far Out in 2024 as being "like a delayed punchline in stand-up comedy," building tension before delivering the payoff. There's less of that theatrical build on Losey, but the persistent "skygazing" texture remains throughout, letting past anxiety and present calm speak to each other across the record.