Bread and butter are a basic pairing, however SOFI TUKKER aren’t ones to comply with the established order. The duo have launched their fourth studio album, butter, a tasty counterpart to 2024’s steamy BREAD.
Whereas BREAD stands for “Be Really Energetic And Dance,” butter dials down the tempo and raises the warmth, melting listeners with sensual serenades and soulful soundscapes by a Brazilian lens.
Comprising “nearly all organic elements,” in response to SOFI TUKKER’s Sophie Hawley-Weld, butter is infused with Brazilian sonics starting from “more classical tropical genres like bolero, bachata, samba-cançao, bossa nova and baião to more contemporary genres like reggae, Brazilian funk and samba-reggae.”
The Brazilian style bossa nova is what Hawley-Weld was pursuing when she first met her SOFI TUKKER bandmate, Tucker Halpern, over a decade in the past. We bought our first glimpse means again in 2018 by advantage of “Brazilian Soul,” a collaboration with The Knocks that has since amassed over 50 million streams on Spotify alone.
Since then, the tandem has labored to subtly incorporate bossa nova into the chart-topping dance music everyone knows and love. Now, nevertheless, they’ve returned to the place all of it started so as to launch one thing extra substantial.
“This whole album is a dream come true and it marks an important time in my life… my return to Brazil,” Hawley-Weld stated. “My Portuguese improved, my relationships there grew, and I felt vibrant in a way that only Brazil makes me feel.”
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Following the discharge of BREAD, Hawly-Weld and Halpern have been put in contact with Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Marcio Arantes, who helped produce butter. He introduced in Julio “Fejuca”Caesar (guitar), Daniel Conceição (percussion), Lulinha Alencar (accordion) and Will Bone (horns) to flesh out the album’s instrumentals.
Every rendition of the unique is buttery easy, with an eloquent fluidity from begin to end. Some standout tracks embody “Throw Some Ass” and “Excellent Somebody,” which have been artistically melted into sultry live versions.
“It was totally different from what Tuck and I are used to whereas making dance music, which tends to be very stop-and-start and loop-based,” Hawley-Weld affirms.
You may hearken to butter beneath and discover the brand new album on streaming platforms right here.
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