LABEL: MERGE
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 3/25/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE:3/25/2022
VARIANT: YELLOW & BLACK SPLATTER

Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award and Mercury Prizenominated British synthpop group Hot Chip, a collaboration born out of mutual admiration watching each other on festival stages, as well as a shared love of Francis Bebey and Giorgio Moroder. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder. Electricity is the first album Ibibio Sound Machine have made with external producers since the groups formation in London in 2013 by lead singer Eno Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017s Uyai featured mixdown guests including Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, the keyboard jedi in future-jazz trio The Comet Is Coming, but Hot Chip and Ibibio Sound Machine worked together more deeply throughout the process, collaborating fully. Along the way, the team conjured a kaleidoscope of delights that include resonances of Jonzun Crew, Grace Jones, William Onyeabor, Tom Tom Club,The J.B.s, Jon Hassells Fourth World, and Bootsy Collins.