Sébastien Tellier’s Kiss The Beast | An Intergenerational Party Anthem with Slayyyter and Nile Rodgers

Sébastien Tellier has always lived somewhere between reality and the delirious dreamscape of French Touch mythology, but Kiss The Beast feels like the moment he reclaims that territory with a new kind of conviction. Announced for release on January 30, 2026, the album arrives as a shimmering portal; less a continuation of his past chapters than a sly, self-authored reboot. After teasing the project with the tender introspection of “Naïf de Cœur,” Tellier pivots sharply toward the nocturnal with “Thrill Of The Night,” a track that radiates the fizzy promise of bodies, bass, and borrowed fantasies.

On “Thrill Of The Night,” Tellier extends an invitation into a club that may or may not exist, built from collective memory and selective amnesia. Produced by Oscar Holter and SebastiAn, the record channels a lavish, electronic disco pulse polished to a distinctly French sheen. Slayyyter’s gleaming vocals cut through the haze with a Studio 54 shimmer, while Nile Rodgers’ signature guitar licks arrive like dispatches from some eternal dancefloor. It’s a song about liberation, its all about the giddy sensation that, under the right lights, life becomes elastic and impossible things suddenly tilt toward possible.

Tellier describes the track as an attempt to “relive those club years,” the nights where time morphed, rules dissolved, and fantasy reigned supreme. His collaborators echo that sense of reverence: Slayyyter speaks of recording at Motorbass Studios as a “precious moment,” a kind of pilgrimage to the sonic architecture that shaped her own artistic DNA. There’s something tender about seeing these artists—each an icon of different corners of pop—collide in a shared, imagined nightlife. It feels like a cross-generational séance held on the altar of disco.

To translate this world into visuals, Tellier reunites with filmmaker Melchior Leroux, whose decadent surrealism has become a natural extension of the artist’s universe. The video stitches together green-screen performances of Tellier, Slayyyter, and Rodgers into a reconstructed disco dimension—part slasher dreamscape, part neon fever fantasy. A young woman wanders through it all, searching for Tellier as the three artists flicker in and out like benevolent specters. Leroux calls the project a “large collage,” and that feels right: Thrill Of The Night isn’t just a song or a video, but a stitched-together mythology of nightlife itself, an era of fragmented, haunted, and glittering with possibility.