Composer/producer Alexis Georgopoulos (Arp) has announced the release of his forthcoming record, New Pleasures, due out July 15 via Mexican Summer. In addition, the project has released the title track accompanied with a new video, directed by Adinah Dancyger. New Pleasures is the second chapter in his ZEBRA trilogy and advances the narrative begun with 2018’s acclaimed ZEBRA. The record that showcases an aura of moods and transitions in a state of euphoria. New Pleasures fast-forwards a few centuries, locating listeners in a post-industrial Sprawl (to borrow an expression from William Gibson’s Neuromancer) of concrete and glass. The record melds sleek sounds alongside a world of industrialism. “That space between idea and reality, fact and fiction—which drives New Pleasures—is so often in...