Bonobo Announces New Album 'Distance In Static'

Bonobo has announced Distance In Static, his first new album since 2022’s Fragments, out September 11 on Ninja Tune.

For more than 25 years, Simon Green has occupied a rare lane in electronic music. He is not just a producer who learned how to tour, or a live artist who occasionally steps back into the booth. He has built a whole language between those worlds, from the widescreen sweep of Migration to the emotional voltage of Fragments, and into the DJ sets and OUTLIER label and lineups that keep him plugged directly into the floor.

Distance In Static looks set to stretch that language again. The album features Joy Crookes, Arooj Aftab, Nilüfer Yanya, Ichiko Aoba, Nicole Miglis of Hundred Waters and Aanya Martin, with lyrics moving between English, Urdu and Japanese.

The first single, “Me and You,” – dropping June 12 – is the clearest sign that Green has not lost touch with the booth. It is a direct, club-facing cut that has already been tested in his recent DJ sets, including pop-up shows in London and Paris, where fans were already chasing the ID.

Parts of Distance In Static were recorded across LA, Tokyo and London, with a chunk finished at Neil Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in California. A new Bonobo Live show follows this fall, with North American headline dates starting in November (ticket details here).