The Week’s Best New Dance Songs

U.K. producer Tourist has been teasing a trance project for awhile, and his new LP, Music Is Invisible, delivers the goods. Tourist’s sixth studio album, the LP includes 10 tracks that are lush and cerebral, but not too high-minded that they lose dancefloor potency.

“I was moving around nonstop while I was making Music Is Invisible,” the artist born William Phillips says in a statement. “It helped me envision how listeners would be able to lose themselves in the music—which is what trance is all about. In this respect, it was a very physical record to make. I was able to marry my songwriting tendencies with my producer and artist tendencies. It almost feels like a document of how I view trance in all of its forms. It’s music that confronts you and that you swim around in. It’s an intense physical feeling.”

Music Is Invisible is out on Queens Road Music/AndRECORDS /Atlantic Records. Listen to it here.

Alison Wonderland returns with her first full-length album since 2022, with Ghost World finding her not only unpacking intensely personal topics, like a 2024 miscarriage, but building a sonic world in which to be with them. “I often feel like I’m wandering this earth trying to find my home, both artistically and personally” the producer says. “Sometimes it feels like the search will never end, I want people to know that while you’re on that search, there is a place of refuge here for you, with us, in Ghost World.”

The project includes collaborators like DJ Dave, Memba and fellow Aussie star Ninajirachi, who’s currently on her own hot streak and whose work with Wonderland on “Heaven” makes for of one of Ghost World‘s most powerful moments.

Ghost World is out on Casablanca Records. Listen to it here.

Kaskade has previously mentioned making his new album during a period of personal challenges, and given that its the legendary producer’s first full length since separating from his wife, it feels reasonable to interpet undux as the producer’s divorce album. He certainly pours emotion into the work, with tracks like “obvious” (the rare Kaskade songs to feature his own vocals), “heart worth breaking” and “i can’t make you love me” (which is, yes, a dance cover of the Bonnie Raitt heartbreak classic) laying out bare angst over productions that might have you crying on the dancefloor.

Undux is out on Monstercat & Arkade. Listen to it here.

The Fibonacci sequence Subtronics started in April with his Fibonacci Part 1: Oblivion project continues today with Fibonacci Part 2: Infinity. The ten-track album features a heavyweight collection of collaborators including Grabbitz, Jem Cooke, Illenium and Linney, who add verve to a vibrating collection of psychedelic bass music that further establishes the producer as one of the essential dubstep artists of the era. Watch Subtronics talking about the project in a new Billboard News conversation with Love Island star Nic Vans.

Fibonacci Pt 2: Infinity is out on Cyclops Recordings. Listen to it here.

Electronic jam legends STS9 recently dropped their thirteenth studio album Human Dream, which clocks in at 19 tracks that play out over an hour and 20 minutes. And yet much like seeing the group live, one song simply melts into the next, making for a listening session that approximates their lauded performances without ever feeling indulgent. The album was entirely recorded in the band’s own studio in Santa Cruz, Calif., with the process starting in 2020 while the CZU Complex fire raged around the city.

“The fire burned 80,000 acres, burning our bass player’s house and countless others,” the band says in a joint statement. “The fire was moving so fast toward our studio we decided to move all the gear into one of our homes further in town away from the approaching flames. For weeks, as the smoky skies outside were Blade Runner orange, the Human Dream started taking shape, reflecting our own dreams of a more human world.”

STS9 is on tour across the U.S. through May, and Human Dream is out now on 1320 Records/Symphonic. Listen to it here.