UK-based neo-psychedelic collective Mandrake Handshake return today with a new single, "En Vol," their first new music since last year's debut album Earth-Sized Worlds. The track was co-produced by Dom Kirtley and the band's lead guitarist Row Janujah, and there's more to come later this year.

Listen to "En Vol" below:

Where Earth-Sized Worlds was written around a central theme of arriving at a place called Space Beach ("a land of dichotomies, where the sea joins the sky and trees reach up and tickle the bellies of the stars"), "En Vol" is the moment the Mandrake first leaves the earth behind.

As the band explain in a press release:

“It is the sound of a first take-off; a horizon widening beneath outstretched wings, and the beautiful, precarious conviction that the sky was waiting all along.  Inspired by the velvet atmospheres of 90s trip-hop and, in particular, a transcendent live performance by AIR, the song drifts and glides through clouds of analogue warmth before unfurling into something brighter and more reckless. Here, the Mandrake becomes an aviator of her own mythology: all nerve, elegance and aspiration; like Icarus before the sun has compromised his intentions, she is untouched by consequence and intoxicated by possibility.”

Additional tour dates are coming soon but here are all the band's currently scheduled shows across the EU and at Worthy Earth Festival in the UK:

09/10 Rotterdam, NL @ V11
09/11 Leeuwarden, NL @ Misty Fields Festival
09/18 Hampshire, UK @ Worthy Earth Festival
11/10 Riorges, FR @ Mardis du Grand Palais
11/11 Lyon, FR @ Periscope
11/13 Paris, FR @ Ludique Hasard
11/14 Rouen, FR @ Le 3 Pieces