Balint has appeared on recordings by Michael Gira's group Angels of Light, Marc Ribot's group Los Cubanos Postizos, John Lurie's album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, Dayna Kurtz, and with the Swans. Her cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Un Poison Violent, C'est Ca L'amour" appears on the record Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg on John Zorn's Tzadik label released in 1997. [7] She was a featured guest member of Marc Ribot's group Ceramic Dog, touring Europe throughout 2009 and is featured on their 2013 release Your Turn.[citation needed] In 2014, Balint appeared as Amia, a violin-playing Hungarian love interest for Louis C.K. on the latter's FX series, Louie.[8] In 2015, Balint released her third album Airless Midnight, produced by J. D. Foster.[9] That same year, Paste magazine premiered Balint's first official music video, "Trouble You Don't See". Josh Jackson wrote: "Paste named Eszter Balint an artist to watch back in 2004 after she released her second album Mud. In 2014 she released Airless Midnight, and had a recurring role in the fourth season of Louie.[10] Balint played Fern in the 2019 film The Dead Don't Die.[11]
Balint's most recent album I Hate Memory! came out in 2022 and was called a song cycle that is "a fervid tour of her avant-garde youth."[12]Stew co-wrote man songs and sings too, Syd Straw also joins her on the album. [13]
Balint has also been in the news for criticizing the rampant commercialization of Basquiat's work and image, telling the New York Post: “This kind of flattening and fetishizing takes people further away from the art.” [14]
