Synthetic Hearts

No Format's new release Synthetic Hearts is a synthesis of sound and style. As a collaborative project between critically acclaimed artists, South African musicians Msaki and Tubatsi Mpho Moloi join French cellist Clément Petit on the label's experimental new release.

With Synthetic Hearts, Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Msaki, and Clément Petit issue an invitation to the listener and lover to journey to another place. Here, hearts, experiences, and sounds meet, shift, and evolve across an inventive nine-track album.

Experimental, playful, and complex, the project merges voices, instruments, and sounds across geographies and genres, creating sparse yet lush atmospherics that center on the universal themes of love.

As skilled musical shapeshifters, Synthetic Hearts melds Msaki and Moloi's folk sensibilities with electronic elements, as Petit teases out distinct textures from his cello across the record.

On Synthetic Hearts, love, longing, confusion, sorrow, despondency, and queries are opened up and negotiated in songs that vibrate with their naked, honest, and tender vulnerability.