Energy Whores Release New Single & Album ‘Arsenal of Democracy’
Carrie Schoenfeld is not interested in your comfort. Good.
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The New York vocalist, composer, filmmaker and classically trained pianist has spent years building something that doesn’t fit anywhere neatly — and Arsenal of Democracy, released January 2026, is the sharpest proof yet that this is entirely deliberate. Ten tracks of synth-driven electro-pop that dances with one hand and points a finger with the other.
What’s striking about Carrie Schoenfeld as an artist is the range of weapons she’s carrying. She’s not a musician who wandered into politics. She’s not a polemicist who learned some chords. The filmmaking eye is all over this record — the way scenes are constructed, the way ‘Pretty Sparkly Things’ drops the lyric “you’re too poor and sleeping on the floor” inside something so deceptively breezy you almost miss it. Almost.
‘Hey Hey Hate!’ opens proceedings with the energy of someone who’s been waiting a long time to say something and has finally stopped being polite about it. ‘Bunker Man’ is blacker in its humour — Schoenfeld skewering survivalist fantasies with the precision of someone who finds the whole thing both terrifying and faintly ridiculous. Which it is.
There’s a DIY basement-studio rawness to the production that suits her. This isn’t music that needed a big room and a bigger budget. It needed honesty, and that’s cheaper.
Carrie Schoenfeld has said she’s “not here to soothe.” On the evidence of Arsenal of Democracy, she isn’t here to flatter you either — not your politics, not your consumer habits, not your doomscrolling, not your disengagement.
She’s here to make you dance, feel uneasy, and think about why those two things keep happening at the same time.
