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For a long time now, the London collective Ibibio Sound Machine has made a dizzy, cross-cultural form of party music, rooted both in disco and in the Afrobeat that frontwoman Eno Williams grew up with. Earlier this spring, the band dropped the one-off single “Return To Sender<\/a>,” which is not an Elvis cover. Now, they’re ready to announce Chopping Mountain<\/em>, a new album that’s coming later this summer. <\/p>\n Ibibio Sound Machine recorded the follow-up to 2024’s Pull The Rope<\/a><\/em> at their own South London studios. After they worked with outside collaborators on their last couple of LPs, this one sees band member Max Grunhard once again acting as producer, a role he last occupied on 2019’s Doko Mien<\/a><\/em>. Their new single “Concept Of Love” is a dizzy, joyous, robo-funk celebration in which Eno Williams switches back and forth between the English and Ibibio languages. She says that the song “went through many different stages and ended with a soulful, electronic Afro-disco feel. What you give out into the world is what you receive back, it\u2019s beautiful to be loved.”<\/p>\n Joe Gist and William Wade directed the swirling, colorful “Concept Of Love” video. Below, you’ll find that clip, the Chopping Mountain<\/em> tracklist, and the band’s upcoming touring plans, which sadly include no North American shows.<\/p>\n