Noga Erez

The world is ending, and NOGA EREZ has a few suggestions.Keep the deliveries coming. Reach for Prozac or chocolate. Find reassurance ina fortune cookie. On ‘People, I hope you know the world is ending.,’ the firstsingle from her fourth album, DUCK SEASON, she serves up familiarescape routes with a reassuring smile and a melody you can already hear a crowdsinging back to her. Shopping, chemical comforts, compulsory optimism:everything we reach for to make reality easier to ignore is available here. Andthe song keeps smiling as the picture gets darker, capturing the spirit of arecord where pleasure and unease share a beat, jokes land dangerously close tohome, and even the most swaggering voice can crack. With the ingenious hooks, mischievousproduction and irresistible rhythms that have become the signature of Erez andher longtime creative and life partner, songwriter and producer Ori Rousso, DUCK SEASON may be theirmost accessible album yet. But it’s also the most personal and confrontational,balancing sharp social commentary with moments of vulnerability and compassion.Where 2024’s THEVANDALIST embraced darker experimentation and the happy accidentsof the studio, DUCKSEASON takes on a more cinematic quality, with each song creatingits own vivid, sometimes unsettling world. Since Off The Radar, Erez’s2017 debut, her exhilarating, genre-transgressive approach has won her a longlist of high-profile fans, among them Missy Elliott, who appeared on 2022’s “Nails,”Billie Eilish, who called her “amazing,” and Robbie Williams, who dubbed her”The Queen.” She secured more still at Coachella 2026, her bloodied nose aswiftly viral representation of her and her band’s commitment. Throughout allthis, she and Rousso have written their music and lyrics together, with theirrelationship sometimes inspiring their most intimate songs, a bond alsoexplored in the new documentary, Noga. Now to the elephant in the room: Noga Erez is the world’s mostsuccessful Israeli musician, which…