Admist his stint as drummer/producer for the venerable Big Thief, James Krivchenia also makes cartoonish, collage-like electronic music that cherrypicks from a rather dazzling range of sources.

Krivchenia has announced new album Performing Belief – out May 22 via Planet Mu – the follow-up to 2022's Blood Karaoke, and has shared a new track called "Probably Wizards". It's a jittery electronic jam that features prolific instrumentalists Sam Wilkes and Joshua Abrams adding some physicality with bass and percussion. There's some brief flirtations with Euro-house and Italo-disco before helixing back into its erratic groove.

Listen below:

Performing Belief adds fresh instrumentation and hardware – like synths and drum machine – which is quite a notable progression from Blood Karaoke, a record that was exclusively a patchwork of sound snippets and field recordings Krivchenia had ripped from YouTube videos.

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Krivchenia still messes around with field recordings, but instead of scanning the world wide web, he performed many of his own found sounds on Performing Belief: "[A] particularly resonant log on a hike, throwing rocks into a pristine pond, tap dancing in the mud," to quote the press release.

In addition, Krivchenia will play his very first show as a solo artist on June 17 at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets can be purchased here.

Performing Belief is out May 22. Preorder the record here. Full tracklist below:

1. Undesigned
2. Judge The Seeds (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams) 
3. Probably Wizards (with Sam Wilkes)
4. Sympathetic Magic (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams)
5. Bracelets For Unicorns (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams)
6. Filling In The Swamp (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams)
7. The Wounded Place (with Sam Wilkes)
8. Metaphoric Leakage (with Sam Wilkes)