It’s been more than six years since Maribou State—the melodic, electronic London-suburbs duo of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory dropped their last full album. That record, 2018’s Kingdoms in Colour, was a smash, sending the friends to festivals around the globe and pushing their sound—swirling bouquets of programmed beats, live instruments and chopped-up vocal melodies— well into the mainstream of downtempo dance music. A massive scene has grown up around them, with artists like Fred again.. and LP Giobbi releasing similar mosaics of emotionally charged, beautifully longing electronic music. On their third LP, Hallucinating Love, Maribou State put a fitting name to the sound they’ve created. These 10 tracks seem to rise and fall, appear and vanish, just as mysteriously as a mirage. Hallucinating Love, like the rest of Maribou’s catalog, isn’t dance music for the heat of the night— you won’t hear these tracks at a club at 3 a.m. This is sunset or sunrise music, injected with the energy of possibility, positivity and warmth. The duo creates that vibe by expertly weaving together colorful sounds—samples that twirl around each other, robotic blips and bleeps twisted around echoing guitars and swelling strings, beats that flood through the speakers and then retreat. It’s far from pulsing, classic techno—the album inhales and exhales with you. Take “Eko’s.” The song samples a sparse, mournful recording of Davids’ father’s old guitar, then layers on twinkling bells, fuzzy, bent-note synthesizers, a steadily growing drum-machine beat and Davids’ live vocals—the first ever Maribou track to feature his voice. You’re left with a collage of synthetic and organic sounds, beautifully sewn together into a track that’ll make you dance even as it gets your eyes watering