New Music Albums: CHOPPING MOUNTAIN (Ibibio Sound Machine)

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Artist:
Ibibio Sound Machine

Genre:
R&B
Jazz
International

Total Time:
40:46

Record Label:
Merge Records

Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
September 11, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: Chopping Mountain, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine - out September 11, 2026 - is the clearest rendering yet of the London collective's longstanding mission to promote love, unity, and resistance through music. It is the band's sixth full-length record, and the first to feature the band's Max Grunhard as producer since 2019's Doko Mien. Following their Hot Chip-produced breakthrough Electricity (2022) and the darker, clubbier inflection of the Ross Orton-produced Pull the Rope (2024), Chopping Mountain feels like it was pulled directly from the hearts and experiences of the Eno Williams and Grunhard-led band.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Burning in Lagos (06:43)

2 . Chopping Mountain (03:29)

3 . When You Want to Dance (04:01)

4 . Concept of Love (03:31)

5 . Return to Sender (03:23)

6 . Give Me Peace Ibibio Sound Machine feat. Dele Sosimi (04:34)

7 . Menso (04:07)

8 . Love (03:32)

9 . Kukuru (03:16)

10 .River Don't Rush (04:15)

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