Berkeley duo Jed and Lucia (real names Emma Lucia and Mark Reveley) is only a week away from the release of the follow up to its Super Human Heart LP for the Ubiquity label, a four-track EP called Helium. The title track is the only non-remix production on that offering, which we have to share with you here. Distant synthscapes, broken piano melodies, hushed vocal coos, and herky-jerky drum loops are at the heart of “Helium,” and effectively help the song straddle the many fences that stand between genres like beat music, chillwave, ambient, synth-pop, and other electronic sub-strands. We expect it will sit nicely next to a remix from UK producer Letherette, and two new versions of tracks from the pair’s Super Human Heart record by Lucia and Reveley themselves.

Helium