Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine

Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award– and Mercury Prize–nominated 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 group’s formation in London in 2013 by lead singer Eno Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017’s 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 Hassell’s Fourth World, and Bootsy Collins.

Ibibio Sound Machine

Electricity

Merge Records
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
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Ibibio Sound Machine

Electricity

Merge Records
Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
LP +

$22.99

exclusive

Yellow / Black / White Tri-Colour Vinyl

Rough Trade Exclusive
Limited to 300 copies
Released 11/25/2022Catalog Number

MRG765

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Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
LP

$22.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 03/25/2022Catalog Number

673855076515

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Album artwork for Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine
CD

$13.99

4-panel wallet with gloss coated cover

Released 03/25/2022Catalog Number

673855076522

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Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award– and Mercury Prize–nominated 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 group’s formation in London in 2013 by lead singer Eno Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017’s 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 Hassell’s Fourth World, and Bootsy Collins.