A pivot from campy Europop into the chaotic sounds of mid-2000s electro. In January 2026, the German-born, LA-based pop star Kim Petras lashed out against her former label, Republic Records, claiming that her third album and its singles had spent six months stuck in limbo. That album, Detour, arrives on Petras’ own BunHead Records, her first on the label since 2020. A pivot from the campy Europop of previous albums Feed the Beast and Problématique, the album’s 13 tracks are steeped in the messy, chaotic sounds of mid-aughts electro, with heavy bass, distorted vocals, and production credits that include Frost Children, Margo XS, and the late SOPHIE (who appears on “Basketball” alongside BC Kingdom). Petras lusts over an unavailable guy on the starry-eyed bloghouse banger “I Like Ur Look,” gets freaky in the Polo Lounge over buzzsaw synths on “Polo,” and loiters in gas station parking lots on “Jeep,” an ode to Americana co-written by Porches’ Aaron Maine. But the album’s sweetest and most surprising moment is “Brutalist,” a synth-pop memory of a since-demolished building that Petras’ architect father used to point out when he drove her to the psychiatrist’s office as a kid.