MAREUX Releases New Album Nonstop Romance
Today via Revolution / Warner Records
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Headlining The Novo in Los Angeles This Winter
Photo By Jason Renaud
Mareux on the Cover of DRØME May 2025
“a perfectly asymmetrical, powerfully heartfelt collage of unlikely club sounds” Alternative Press (Read Interview)
“a maestro of retro-wave cinematics” Post-Punk
“an integral part of the modern era of dark music” Knotfest
Los Angeles, CA (June 27, 2025): Mareux (Aryan Ashtiani) delivers his compelling dance-pop / confessional darkwave gem - Nonstop Romance - today via Revolution / Warner Records. Listen HERE and pre-order the vinyl arriving August 1 HERE.
Nonstop Romance is rough and unmannered, completely drunk in love and refusing to walk it off. Like a frilly valentine scuffed on hard pavement, it’s simultaneously gushing and fractured, distorted into illegibility but transparent in its intentions.
Each of Mareux’s intricately crafted tracks are set up like Venus fly traps, beaming romance and thumping beats underlit in a sinister red. Maintaining that balance—between the album’s obvious pleasure and the quiet threat that accompanies it—is central to its ethos.
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“I like when music sounds like found footage,” Mareux explains. While writing and recording Nonstop Romance in his bedroom in Los Angeles’ Lincoln Heights neighborhood over the span of 2024, he’d set up an old CRT TV and watched films on mute for inspiration—anything from Andrei Tarkovsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky to Hype Williams’ Nas and DMX-starring Belly. If this sounds like an unlikely combination, Mareux fits them together naturally in Nonstop Romance, blending smeared tape-residue synths into readymade club hits.
On Nonstop Romance, Mareux prioritizes feel and vibe over clarity. Still, anyone who fell in love with his music via his viral cover of The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” (now certified platinum Stateside, and gold in France) or the heartfelt noir of 2023’s Lovers from the Past will find plenty to swoon over here. This is an album that wears its title on its sleeve; an earnest manifestation. Though he brings a meticulous ear to the across this album, it’s all in service to a greater goal - being in love.
Mareux recently announced two Southern California headlining performances: Friday, December 12 in Pomona at Fox Theater and Saturday, December 13 at The Novo in Los Angeles. Tickets for both shows are on sale here – stay tuned for additional live announcements.
Nonstop Romance Artwork | Photo By Cameron McCool
Nonstop Romance Tracklist:
1 - Blackmail
2 - Radio Club
3 - Nonstop Romance
4 - Wild at Heart
5 - Ébène Fumé Ft. Riki
6 - Prodigy
7 - Blue
8 - Laugh Now Cry Later
9 - Snake Eyes
Mareux Live Dates:
Dec 12: Pomona, CA - Fox Theater (Tickets)
Dec 13: Los Angeles, CA - The Novo (Tickets)
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