Berlin-based producer MONKyMAN returns with What About Love, a stunning electronic odyssey that captures the beauty and complexity of human connection. The album cements MONKyMAN’s place as one of the most compelling voices in modern electronic music, an artist whose sound radiates both spirit and sophistication.
The record’s emotional core, “Better In Love,” feels like the sunrise after a long night. Built around shimmering Afro rhythms, soaring vocals, and delicate melodic layers, the track moves like a heartbeat, tender yet unrelenting. There’s a sense of liberation here, an emotional release that pulses through every shaker and synth line. It’s not just a dance track; it’s a conversation between body and soul.
Across What About Love, MONKyMAN weaves together dreamy atmospherics, jazzy instrumentals, and soulful textures that speak to his wide-ranging influences, from André 3000 and Sun Ra to Nina Simone and Black Coffee. The result is an album that exists beyond genre boundaries, blending Afro-inflected house, ambient electronica, and emotive storytelling into a unified expression of love, growth, and self-awareness.
Having toured from South Africa to New York and graced the stages of Fusion Festival and Apple Tree Garden, MONKyMAN channels the energy of the world into his production, each beat carrying the dust of different dancefloors, each melody holding a memory. What About Love isn’t just an album to listen to; it’s one to experience.
At its core, this is music about being better in love, with others, with the world, and most importantly, with oneself.
