Between the discharge of “Immortal Love” and the announcement of Hyperlove, MIKA followers have so much to like this week. The worldwide pop star has revealed particulars of his forthcoming LP and shared its vivacious new single, all of it setting the stage for what guarantees to be an electrical 2026 tour.
Hyperlove, MIKA’s first English-language album since 2019’s My Identify Is Michael Holbrook, will likely be out Jan. 23 through Republic Data. Based on MIKA, the undertaking explores the stress between the human and the digital, “the electricity that jumps between the plus and minus of a charge.” The Beirut-born singer-songwriter elaborates, “Hyper-love and hyper-living are about embracing that euphoria that helps you make sense of the world around you.”
The brand new album options MIKA’s model new single “Immortal Love,” which arrives this week on a wave of shimmering synths and a fizzy, hard-pounding dance beat. The observe is partially impressed by MIKA’s 15-year-old golden retriever, who he credit as a longtime companion in his artistic life. “It’s just immortal love / There’s just immortal love / We are immortal love,” he sings on the refrain.
The brand new album additionally consists of the current “Modern Times.” Described by MIKA as “a cathedral-like cry, for faith and spirit, resisting the grind and weight of life and the passing of time,” it was launched on Halloween together with a Charlie Chaplin-inspired music video. Each new singles exhibit MIKA’s renewed dedication to the piano because the core of his artistic course of; all songs from Hyperlove started with the instrument and have been fleshed out with analog and classic outboard gear.
A couple of weeks after dropping “Modern Times,” MIKA shared information of his Spinning Out North American Tour. Kicking off April 29 in Boston and concluding with a efficiency at Mexico Metropolis’s Tecate Emblema pageant on Could 16, the 11-date run additionally options stops in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and extra.
Browse Mika’s music on vinyl or CD right here.
