Following the sunlit escapism of TEMPLE. BEACH. DISCO. DADDY., The New Citizen Kane returns with LIQUID. LATEX. DISCO. DADDY., the second instalment in his evolving disco-drenched universe. If the earlier release shimmered in daylight, this one moves after dark, drawn toward the tactile pulse of underground dance culture.
Born Kane Michael Luke and now based in London, The New Citizen Kane works across music, film and visual art. His songs often feel suspended between memory and movement, where synth lines carry emotional weight and cinematic imagery sharpens the intimacy of the writing. After nearly a decade away, his 2024 visual album The Tales of Morpheus marked a return that felt less like comeback than reintroduction, establishing a language where personal mythology and electronic form could exist in the same frame.
LIQUID. LATEX. DISCO. DADDY. pushes that language into darker territory. Rooted in deep house, 90s club textures and the sensual friction of late-night spaces, the record is not simply a remix collection. Each track is reworked to inhabit a cohesive sonic world. Familiar material is stretched, submerged and reshaped. Basslines deepen, rhythms tighten, and vocals flicker between closeness and release.
At the centre of the project is Kane’s longstanding creative partnership with Red Man Runs, the producer Ronan Kirkpatrick. The two first studied music production together in Dublin in 2000, and that shared history gives the album a sense of instinctive chemistry. Kirkpatrick also appears on the opening track, “WHAT’S HIS NAME?”, setting the tone with nocturnal tension and understated intrigue.
The record also introduces new compositions that extend the project beyond reinterpretation. Lead single “(TRIP) UNRAVELLING” captures one of the album’s central ideas: nightlife as both escape and reckoning, a place where losing yourself and finding yourself can feel almost indistinguishable.
Across LIQUID. LATEX. DISCO. DADDY., Kane continues to treat the dancefloor as emotional terrain. The music is sleek but restless, sensual but unsettled. It is less about nostalgia than transformation, stepping out of the light and into something more immersive, intimate and alive.
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