Ibibio Sound Machine - ElectricityEven in trying times, there is no love without electricity. Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. Its darker than anything weve done previously, says Eno Williams, the groups singer. Thats because it grew out of the turbulence of the past year. It inhabits an edgier world. Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award and Mercury

he’d read at the Nuyorican Poets Café

Three Longers Later

the band wired every corner of Sarah Neufeld’s (Violin

” Frazer says

it’s a powerhouse original that indicates where Hutch would take his sound on The Mack

with vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering

A survivor of domestic abuse for much of her life

and Willis's lurid

New Big Red Machine material began taking shape in spring 2019

odd/deep grooves and microtonal tunings

New players on this record include LA’s Greg Paul on drums (of Kalayst Collective)

Produced by Jeff Hamilton - a longtime member of the Horns of Dilemma