Superorganism announces new album ‘World Wide Pop’ due July 15 (Sabong News)
Author
Robert Requintina
Date
MARCH 17 2022
When the first
music surfaced in 2017, the group’s in-your-face aesthetic — a post-everything mishmash of psychedelic indie pop and fizzy, funky electronica — quickly began to resonate with the likes of
and
as well as finding them legions of fans across the world.
Superorganism are pleased to announce their eagerly awaited return with news of their second album; entitled
and due for release on
, it is their first new music since 2018’s self-titled debut.
Superorganism have mutated and are now based around the core of Orono, Harry, Tucan, B and Soul but
also brings in an international set of collaborators including
,
,
,
as well as legendary musician and actor
.
Blasting back with thirteen tracks that strike a balance between artifice and earnestness, between sci-fi silliness and existential intensity,
is a showcase for Superorganism’s newly deepened understanding of each other’s interests and impulses, the kind of creative convergence you’d expect when online friends start spending time together IRL (their debut was completed before the whole band had ever been in the same room at the same time).
Alongside the album announcement, Superorganism are pleased to reveal the first cut from the record,
. Featuring good friends and former tour mates Chai and Pi Ja Ma, “Teenager” celebrates holding onto the raw passion and emotion of those formative years and is a rejection of cynicism.
It is produced by
(Madonna, The Killers), who Superorganism tapped to help them achieve the IMAX-sized sheen that their bedroom recordings have always aspired to. The resulting palette on “Teenager” and across the record melds millennium-era synth schmaltz with glitchy wild-eyed weirdness, a textural upgrade that never betrays Superorganism’s signature playfulness.