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Divine providence brought Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey together once. Now, more than two decades later, Uh Huh Her, the synth duo that would help define the indie sleaze era and inspire contemporaries like Metric, Dum Dum Girls, and Magic Wands, are back and ready to beckon a new generation of fans to the dance floor with the re-release of their 2011 electropop classic, Nocturnes. The reissue, titled Nocturnes: Redux, is due out August 7 via Kill Rock Stars across digital platforms and as limited edition goth confetti vinyl. It features the never-before-heard original mixes by super producer Tchad Blake (The Bangles, Arctic Monkeys, Sheryl Crow, Cibo Matto), plus two never-before-heard songs: the sensual and moody new song “Shook” and a cover of Sonic Youth’s classic “Kool Thing.”
Harnessing the band’s signature poetic lyricism and mesmerizing musicianship, the new single “Shook” released today is Uh Huh Her for the modern age. Cam, a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose credits include touring with Morrissey and Adam Lambert, and as a member of Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture’s supergroup Summer Moon, explains that the song is “particularly relevant in a time where everything and everyone feels so unstable. We are living through a profound assault on our central nervous systems by the barrage of media we ingest on a daily basis. While "Shook" is more about a personal situation, the title speaks volumes about what we feel as humans on a daily basis.”
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Just like the way they came together in the summer of 2006 through common friends and interests, their reconnection blossomed serendipitously and quickly. “It feels like it did when we first got together,” adds Leisha, a songwriter, actor, and author, who is well-known in entertainment circles for her starring role on Showtime’s groundbreaking drama The L Word and its follow-up series, Generation Q as well as her New York Times bestselling 2025 memoir, So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All. “We're just creative again together, and it's an interesting place to come back to. And it’s almost like no time has passed, and all of the pressure’s off.”
The original release of Nocturnes was the band’s first without a label. “It meant the world that our fans directly supported the mixing of the album through online eBay auctions of memorabilia, vinyl, art, and even a couple private dinners, because that enabled us to enlist the powers of the incredible Tchad Blake,” Cam says. As they contemplated rereleasing Nocturnes with Kill Rock Stars, Cam started digging around to find the album’s original mixes. “I chose Tchad’s first and second mix attempts because I wanted to preserve his first instincts before we gave him a million notes,” she says. This is truly how he heard it on one or two tries. The songs are longer, they're more rocked out, they're a little more raucous.” The entirety of those original mixes have never seen the light of day until now.
Nocturnes: Redux tracklisting:
1. Same High
2. Wake to Sleep
3. Shook
4. Many Colors
5. Another Case
6. Time Stands Still
7. Disdain
8. Kool Thing
9. Human Nature
10. Debris
11. Criminal
12. Marstorm
13. Darkness Is
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