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Herbert & Momoko tease upcoming album, Clay, with third single ‘Someone Like You’

13 June 2025

Released last week, ‘Someone Like You’ is the third stunning single lifted from Herbert & Momoko‘s upcoming first full-length album together, Clay, following ‘Babystar‘ and ‘Need To Run’. Speaking about the track, Momoko shares:

“As children we can enter a state of flow or contentment quite easily; Climbing a tree, playing a game, reading in the sun… there’s a self-contained wholeness to those times. We can’t find the love that’s beyond the pendulum swings of adolescent love without learning to let someone in, to become vulnerable, to let someone change you. It’s a choice to seek wholeness with another, and understanding interdependency, not just with people but with everything, is one of the most rewarding quests in life. In this song there is a yearning both to learn this interdependency as well as to remember the simpler contentment of being a child.”

Listen to ‘Someone Like You’ below.

Herbert & Momoko share second single, ‘Need To Run’, from forthcoming album Clay

10 May 2025

Photo: Manuel Vazquez

Following the gorgeous lead single ‘Babystar‘ released last month, artist, producer, composer and experimentalist Matthew Herbert and drummer, composer and vocalist Momoko Gill have shared a new glimpse into their forthcoming debut album Clay with a second single, ‘Need To Run’. A beautifully restrained piece, ‘Need To Run’ blends soulful textures and a haunting sense of introspection. In describing the track, Herbert shares:

“We often think of states as binary—awake/asleep etc—but much of life is spent in a state of not knowing quite where you are or where you fit. Need To Run takes place somewhere within one of those moments.”

Listen to ‘Need To Run’ below and grab Clay when it drops on June 27th through Strut / Accidental.

Matthew Herbert and Momoko Gill announce debut collaborative album, Clay

09 April 2025

Photo: Manuel Vazquez

Artist, producer, composer and experimentalist Matthew Herbert and drummer, composer and vocalist Momoko Gill have crossed paths before, debuting a collaboration last year with the single ‘Fallen,’ followed by Gill’s remix of Herbert’s ‘The Horse Is Here.’ Now, they have announced the release of Clay, their first full-length album together, due out on June 27th through Strut. Clay plays with sound in ways that only Herbert and Gill can. Featuring eleven tracks, the upcoming record “treads nimbly between the dancefloor and the more introspective moods of the early hours”, as the press release explains, capturing the kind of balance that makes their collaboration so intriguing. Herbert’s signature style, often transforming the world into his instrument, collides beautifully with Gill’s unique voice and multi-instrumental prowess.

Heralding the release of Clay, Herbert and Gill have shared the lead single ‘Babystar’, a gorgeous track woven with intricate rhythms. Listen to it below.

New Herbert album, Musca, out in October

04 July 2021

Matthew Herbert has announced a third instalment in his series of domestic house albums under the name Herbert, following 2001’s Bodily Functions and 1998’s Around The House. The new album is called Musca and saw the British electronic composer collaborate remotely with eight singers, Verushka Grebenar-George, Siân Roseanna, Allie Armstrong, Bianca Rose, Melissa Uye-Parker, Daisy Godfrey, Yakoto Kieck and Joy Morgan. Musca also features six other incredible musicians, Tom Skinner, Nick Ramm, Tom Herbert, Finn Peters, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Leo Taylor.

About the album, Herbert commented:

“Like presumably many other albums made during the last year, Musca reflects on navigating the challenges and joys of our most intimate relationships whilst the world is in turmoil. Not just with Covid, but with the rise in state and political violence, facebook-friendly fascism, white supremacy and a climate in crisis.”

Musca will see the light of day on October 22nd through Accidental Records and Herbert has shared a first taste from it, ‘The Way’, featuring Ghanaian-German singer Y’akoto.  ‘The Way’, describes Herbert, ‘is a surrender to the intimacy we found ourselves face to face with on a daily basis’. Listen to it below.