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Gelli Haha shares her new maximalist art-pop single “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep." It’s the first taste of music since the release of her 2025 breakout album Switcheroo which earned high acclaim from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Needle Drop, The FADER, Bandcamp, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, FLOOD and countless others. Where Switcheroo studied curiosities, “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” inhabits them - joyful, experimental, embodied, in orbit. Floating between the club, the cosmos, and the cumulus, Gelli moves without waiting for return or resolution. Instead, she drifts inside continuous change, tasting each moment before it evaporates. It’s a sweet, surreal pit stop in the sky and the first glimpse of what comes next.
“Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” comes with another out of this world, whimsical new video by director / visual artist David Gutel that will drop you right into Gelliverse.
The new single appears on Pitchfork's best new music and comes just off the heels of her 2026 Libera Awards’ Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Dance Record nominations and ahead of her Morning Becomes Eclectic performance today on KCRW / NPR who awarded Gelli their 2025 Breakthrough Artist of The Year. Watch it Here.
Shapeshifter / sonic acrobat Gelli Haha kicks off her first headlining North American tour: Where in the World is Gelli Haha tonight with a sold out show at The Roxy in LA. Both Chicago performances, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia are also sold out. Other highlights include NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, her return to Boise’s Treefort Music Fest this weekend plus performances at Kilby Block Party, Capitol Hill Block Party and Primavera festivals. Gelli’s wild and FUN prop-filled, choreographed live show is sure to be this year’s must see performance. “I’m so excited to go on my first headline tour with my incredible team of dancers and musicians. We’ve built a show that’s playful, silly, and alive! I can’t wait for more people to join the experiment,” she enthuses. Remaining tickets are on sale here - a full list of dates are available below.
Mar 25: Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy (SOLD OUT)
Mar 26: San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar (SOLD OUT)
Mar 28: Boise, ID - Treefort Festival
Mar 31: Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club
Apr 01: Portland, OR - Holocene
Apr 02: Seattle, WA - Barboza (SOLD OUT)
Apr 23: Minneapolis, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall
Apr 25: Chicago, IL - Schubas - Early (SOLD OUT)
Apr 25: Chicago, IL - Schubas - Late (LOW TIX)
Apr 27: Toronto, ON - The Garrison
Apr 28: Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz
Apr 29: Boston, MA - Sonia
May 01: New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (LOW TIX)
May 02: Philadelphia, PA - Philamoca (SOLD OUT)
May 04: Washington, DC - Songbyrd (LOW TIX)
May 05: Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle Back Room
May 07: Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Altar)
May 09: Houston, TX - Meow Wolf Houston
May 10: Austin, TX - Antone's
May 11: Dallas, TX - Club Dada
May 13: Denver, CO - Lost Lake (LOW TIX)
May 15: Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Block Party
May 18: Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
May 19: San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room at Hob
May 20: Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room
Jun 06: Barcelona, ES - Primavera
Jun 11: Porto, PT - Primavera
Aug 07-09: Seattle, WA - Capital Hill Block Party
Rarelyalways thrives on asserting himself in the lines that exist between genres. Further echoed by Pitchfork “though Rarelyalways comes out of the London jazz scene, his music has its own distinct flavor.”
Rarelyalways returns with a new EP called "Paid Annual Leave" channeling early UK Grime fused with elements of jazz & trip hop.
Cool Band Alert… “a veritable buffet of dancefloor-ready sounds, from bubbly disco rave-ups and gritty underground club bangers, to stretched out slow jams that ache with sincerity.” Bandcamp
“A delightfully deranged party girl whose bleepy vintage synths, sleazy chug and tireless disco keeps things weird in the right way” The Guardian
“Gelli Haha is ready for her close-up. The LA artist’s debut LP is for fans of weird and whimsical pop concoctions, offering 10 tracks that would feel at home in either a contemporary art exhibit or a discotheque.” The Boston Globe
“well worth your attention” KCRW
“… an album of such effervescence it is practically a geyser” The Quietus
Gelli Haha’s stellar debut album Switcheroo is here. A shapeshifter, a sonic acrobat, a performer with one foot in the cosmos and the other in arthouse theatrics, Gelli Haha (pronounced Jelly-Haha) is a space for pure creative chaos that exists somewhere between Studio 54 and Area 51. Gelli’s music thrives on duality: playful but profound, tongue-in-cheek but sincere. Switcheroo is the soundtrack to the Gelliverse, a sensory adventure sphere created by Gelli.
With a shared taste for off-kilter pop and vintage gear, producer Sean Guerin (of De Lux) joined Gelli in turning freshly-formed demos into a high-voltage experiment, abandoning meticulous structure for something freer and more electrifying. Every song on Switcheroo makes use of a myriad of recording toys; wacky analog effects, such as the Eventide Harmonizer, MXR Pitch Transposer, and various Electrix units, fashion an intentionally flawed and strictly silly texture throughout the album. Switcheroo is an exercise in letting go, an inside joke turned theatrical spectacle.
"an architect of recollection" Exclaim!
"warm, wistful, and quaint all at once" HYPEBEAST
"'contemplative and comforting" NPR
"His voice lilts with every syllable, making the imagery feel crushing and poignant" Pitchfork
Montreal artist and songwriter Jonah Yano announces his new album Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop due October 4th. Coinciding with the album news, he shares two new songs, the previously-unheard “Romance ESL,” as well as releasing his momentous album closer “The Heavy Loop." Both songs, and his new album as a whole, signal an experimental new chapter in Yano’s creative trajectory and his first time working hand-in-hand with his band, Christopher Edmonson, Benjamin Maclean, Leighton Harrell, Felix Fox-Pappas and Raiden Louie. Together, they’ve crafted a collaborative album with Jonah at the helm, that melds free sound, rock, R&B and jazz traditions into a panoramic view of the experience of making an album.
Yano is a soulful, genre-agnostic talent, always shifting the unstable ground his songs rest on, revising it, making it anew. Having emigrated to Vancouver from Hiroshima at the age of four, much of Yano’s approach to music is influenced by his own fractured identity as a member of the Japanese-Canadian diaspora, as well as his larger interest in memory, family histories, and the nuances of interpersonal relationships. The result is a soundtrack that defies easy genre categorization and captures the grey area in which we can find the most fruitful experiences life has to teach us while also highlighting Jonah’s expert musical compositional skills. Yano’s band – composed of Raiden Louie (Drums), Chris Edmondson (Saxophone, Clarinet, Synthesizer), Benja (Guitar), Leighton Harrell (Bass) and Felix Fox-Pappas (Piano, Rhodes) -- first came together to record his 2023 single "concentrate" with Clairo. Now, Yano sits front and center playing the role of conductor as he guides the gentle haze of his musical soundscape into a new ever-evolving world with a steady hand.
Jonah Yano has made songwriting contributions to fellow Canadians Charlotte Day Wilson’s Cyan Blue and Mustafa’s forthcoming album Dunya. In 2023, Jonah released his sophomore album portrait of a dog, co-produced alongside BADBADNOTGOOD and received critical acclaim from outlets like RANGE, Pitchfork, and Exclaim!. He was twice-nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, drawing the attention of Gilles Peterson, Benji B and the late Virgil Abloh. He’s played the Montreal International jazz Festival, the EFG London Jazz Festival and toured Japan for ten solo shows in 2023. Earlier this year, he released the little italy demos, a three-song collaborative tape with his neighbor in Montreal, Le Ren.
Maria Chiara Argirò’s forthcoming album Closer is a testament to her journey of self-exploration, and a manifestation of her profound connection with music. Rooted in an indescribable feeling that compelled her to create, the album transcends boundaries and tranverses the spectrum of electronic music with unparalleled depth and clarity.
Today she’s shared Closer’s opener “Light” - an alluring and infectious synth-pop hit. Argiró says, "It’s about establishing a lighter and balanced relationship with your inner self and consequently with others. Connect genuinely with yourself and others by exploring life in a 'soft' and 'lighter' way, without the need to force things to happen.” The single comes with another immersive video from director Raoul Paulet who describes it, “A mesmerising and kaleidoscopic journey made of colourful and flashy street lights at night in London.”
Argirò has been a central figure in the UK electronic, jazz and classical worlds since she moved to London from Rome over a decade ago. A skilled pianist since childhood, she’s collaborated with everyone from These New Puritans to Jono McCleery to Jamie Leeming alongside output with Moonfish. Her previous solo album, the stunning electronic jazz-fusion record Forest City, received widespread critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, The Fader, Vogue, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork who described Maria's sound: "Hazy, downtrodden vocal harmonies blend with aquatic synth arpeggios that mirror the tide, like Azure Ray singing over Thom Yorke compositions." Her music has featured in the Netflix series, Elite, and she can count the likes of Four Tet and Gilles Peterson as fans, with the latter describing her music as “absolutely crazy good”.
The result of this journey, both sonic and personal, can be keenly felt on Closer. While it is definitely not a concept album, the record does mirror the path of inner self-exploration that Argirò has been on. Albeit moving in unpredictable ways, as it traverses the spectrum of electronic music spanning ambient to dance music, while also retaining light touches of jazz with a leaning towards experimental pop via Argirò’s more central and up-front vocals.
On the album, Maria says: “It is about a feeling, a dreamlike feeling in motion, a feeling that we cannot describe, a dream I’m sort of walking through. Emotions/dreams/feelings that sometimes you can just imagine, a dreamlike world where we walk through to get to the core of ourselves a bit more, even if things are completely undefined and blurry. While working on the music there was this strong feeling - at times blurry and at times more defined - of getting, with every single note, closer and closer to the person I want to be. Free. Curious and consequently Aware, Connected and Closer to the people I love. There is so much noise in this world, I think being direct, gentle, light, open and connected is the key.”
See Clash for more details about the single and forthcoming project.