Name: Electricity
Brand: Ibibio Sound Machine

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

673855076522

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

4-panel wallet with gloss coated cover

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ibibio Sound Machine

Genre US

African

Label US

Merge Records

Exclusives

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.

Electricity

Music US