Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill – Babystar

Matthew Herbert and Momoko Gill’s “Babystar” happens when two musical alchemists decide to make the dancefloor feel introspective. The track moves with the unpredictable grace of a tipsy philosopher—Gill’s vocals float over Herbert’s production like smoke over a lava lamp. That signature Herbert touch is all here: sounds that shouldn’t work together but do, rhythms that can’t decide if they want to make you dance or sit quietly and question your life choices.

As the lead single from their upcoming album Clay, it sets the tone for what promises to be a collaboration full of delightful contradictions – equal parts heady and hedonistic. The press release calls it “agile and open-hearted,” which is a fancy way of saying it’s weird in all the right ways.