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Dancing In Tongues Explore Fragility and Hope on New Single “Petri Dish”
Brooklyn duo Dancing In Tongues return with their new single “Petri Dish” and it lands like a quiet exhale in a loud world.
Built from soft-focus electronics, delicate rhythms, and vocals that feel almost whispered into the room, “Petri Dish” is less a traditional single and more a suspended moment. It drifts, pulses, and holds its breath in all the right places.
The track is the first glimpse of their upcoming 4-track EP of the same name, due 3rd July, and was written and produced in Berlin with Lucas Herweg (LLUCID) and Jacob Bergson (TAUT), working together as Designer.
At its core, “Petri Dish” comes from something deeply personal: the duo’s experience with IVF. Rather than framing it in heavy-handed terms, the song captures the emotional weather of it all; the waiting, the hope that arrives faster than you expect and the strange stillness that sits alongside it.
That duality runs through everything here. The production feels weightless but never empty with shimmering synths that blur at the edges, textures gently fold into one another, and the rhythm never quite settles into certainty. It moves the way thoughts do when you’re waiting for news you can’t control.
Vocally, Sarah Martin-Nuss stays close to the mic, almost conversational at times, which makes the emotional impact feel even more direct. There’s no performance of grandeur here, just presence, honesty, and space to feel things as they are.
Dancing In Tongues have always worked in that in-between zone where electronic music becomes something more tactile and personal, and “Petri Dish” is no exception.
FENRA continues to expand his immersive electronic universe with “EMERALDS”, an atmospheric new single that blends granular textures, fractured percussion, and cinematic emotion into a hypnotic listening experience.
Released via Base Layer Records, the track further showcases the Portland-based producer’s ability to create music that feels less like a traditional dance release and more like a fully formed environment. Built around evolving vocal fragments, soft UK garage-inspired rhythms, and layered synth textures, “EMERALDS” unfolds slowly, pulling listeners into a spacious and emotionally charged soundscape.
Rather than chasing festival-ready drops or commercial EDM formulas, FENRA leans into subtlety and mood. The drums remain intentionally distant while shimmering textures and swirling atmospheres gradually build tension across the track’s compact runtime. By the closing moments, the production blooms into a powerful cinematic finale that feels both intimate and expansive.
Drawing influence from artists such as Four Tet, Bonobo, and Burial, FENRA occupies a space between left-field electronica and emotional downtempo music, balancing technical precision with organic warmth. That balance has already earned him support from publications including CLASH Magazine, Electronic Groove, and Magnetic Magazine following the release of his Delusional EP in 2025.
At the core of “EMERALDS” is an attention to texture and emotional atmosphere. FENRA explained that the song began with sampled chords and vocal fragments that were continuously reshaped until they became “a living texture underneath the track.” That experimental process is audible throughout the single, giving it a fluid and constantly evolving quality.
The result is a release that feels meditative yet restless, delicate yet emotionally weighty. “EMERALDS” doesn’t demand attention through volume or excess, it quietly absorbs it, rewarding listeners who are willing to disappear into its details.
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