New York City’s electronic underground has always thrived on collaboration, and few recent releases capture that spirit as clearly as Public Circuit’s upcoming remix album, Modern Church, arriving April 28. Expanding on their 2025 full-length Modern Church, the trio turn inward to their community — reworking the record alongside a cross-section of artists shaping the current Brooklyn scene.
The project brings together contributors like Lip Critic, Shower Curtain, Grumpy, and The Wants, alongside smush, ideasforconversations, and Crate. Rather than a standard remix rollout, Modern Church feels more like a snapshot of a scene — artists with shared lineage and overlapping stages pushing each other’s work into new territory.
Public Circuit have also shared their own rework of “Damager,” a track rebuilt for the dancefloor with a sharper, industrial edge. Stripped of excess and driven by dense synth propulsion, the remix leans into the band’s core identity: rhythmic, physical, and rooted in the tension between post-punk and electronic music.
That identity has been steadily gaining traction. The band closed out 2025 with a run of U.S. and European dates, including two sold-out shows in Berlin and a notable four-night stint opening for LCD Soundsystem during their Knockdown Center residency in Queens. It’s the kind of co-sign that situates Public Circuit within a lineage of New York dance-punk, while their recorded output pushes beyond revivalism into something more fragmented and contemporary.
Originally released in September 2025, Modern Church marked a shift away from retro signifiers toward a colder, more surgical sound. On the remix album, those foundations are pulled apart and reassembled— each collaborator reframing the material through their own lens, from minimal electronics to noisier, club-oriented interpretations.
The band describes the project as both a celebration and a reinvention: a way to highlight their peers while allowing the songs to exist in multiple worlds. That ethos mirrors the current state of Brooklyn’s underground, where genre boundaries blur and collaboration often outweighs competition.
This spring, Public Circuit will bring that energy back on the road, with dates in Washington, D.C. and Virginia before heading overseas for an extensive UK and European run, including appearances at Macrock, Footsteps Festival, and Green Zoo Festival.
With Modern Church, Public Circuit aren’t just revisiting a record — they’re documenting a moment. And as their reach extends beyond New York, the project stands as both an introduction and an invitation to the network of artists moving alongside them.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
NORTH AMERICA
April 10 – Washington, DC – American University
April 11 – Harrisonburg, VA – Macrock Festival
UK & EU
May 5 – Lyon, FR – Sonic
May 6 – Dijon, FR – Un Singe en Hiver
May 7 – Limoges, FR – Calm
May 8 – Toulouse, FR – Le Ravelin
May 9 – Bordeaux, FR – L’éther
May 10 – Rennes, FR – TBA
May 12 – Kusel, DE – Kinett
May 13 – Wiesbaden, DE – Kreativfabrik
May 14 – Charleroi, BE – Rockenrill
May 15 – Brighton, UK – The Oak
May 16 – Darwen, UK – Sunbird Records
May 18 – Bristol, UK – Exchange
May 19 – London, UK – Elephants Head (Footsteps Festival)
May 20 – Paris, FR – Le Chinois
May 22 – Esslingen, DE – KOMMA
May 23 – Kronach, DE – Tiger Lounge
May 24 – Berlin, DE – Schokoladen
May 25 – Prague, CZ – Chapeau Rouge
May 26 – Budapest, HU – Szimpla Kert
May 28 – Krakow, PL – Green Zoo Festival
May 30 – Memmingen, DE – Mood Club
More information here.
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