Escape the Chaos

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Escape the Chaos
File:Escape the Chaos.jpg
Studio album by
Morcheeba
Released23 May 2025 (2025-05-23)
Studio
  • The Sewing Room (Surrey)
  • Hillside (London)
  • Silver Shark (Tooting)
  • Black Gate (Dublin)
  • Stable (Dunbar)
  • New Realm (London)[1]
Length47:58
Label100%
ProducerRoss Godfrey
Morcheeba chronology
Blackest Blue
(2021) 		Escape the Chaos
(2025)
Singles from Escape the Chaos
  1. "Call for Love"
    Released: 21 January 2025
  2. "We Live and Die"
    Released: 25 February 2025
  3. "Peace of Me"
    Released: 8 April 2025

Escape the Chaos is the eleventh studio album by British electronic band Morcheeba. It was released on 23 May 2025 under 100% Records. It was preceded by three singles: "Call for Love", "We Live and Die", and "Peace of Me", which features rapper Oscar Worldpeace.

Background

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Band member, singer and songwriter Skye Edwards revealed in a June 2023 interview that the band had begun working on their eleventh album with ten tracks in the demo phase.[2] Ross Godfrey stated, "This whole record is a process of trying to reconnect with what really matters [...] whether it's what in your heart or with the world, putting your feet on grass and feeling the earth beneath you".[3]

Promotion

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Singles

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  • In January 2025, the band released the single "Call for Love"[4] A visualiser, created by Dean Eastman and Caroline Darche, was released on the same day.[5]
  • "We Live and Die" was released as the album's second single on 28 February 2025.[6][7]
  • "Peace of Me", a collaboration with Oscar #Worldpeace was released on 8 April 2025 as the third single[8] An official music video, created by Eastman and Darche, was released on the same day.[9]

Live performances

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Morcheeba performed at the Concorde 2 in Brighton on 22 May 2025.[10]

Track listing

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Escape the Chaos track listing[1]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Call for Love"
4:22
2."Elephant Clouds"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
  • Alex O'Keeffe
4:14
3."Peace of Me" (featuring Oscar Worldpeace)
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
  • Oscar Nyanin
2:44
4."We Live and Die"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
3:14
5."Far We Come"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
4:44
6."Molten"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
4:41
7."Bleeding Out"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
  • O'Keeffe
5:43
8."Cooler Heads"
  • Godfrey
  • Hush Counsell
2:11
9."Hold It Down"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
  • Jordan T. Hadfield
  • Steve Gordon
3:10
10."Dead to Me"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
4:10
11."Pareidolia" (featuring Amanda Zamolo)
  • Godfrey
  • Amanda Zamolo
3:44
12."Escape the Chaos"
  • Godfrey
  • Edwards
4:56
Total length:47:58

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[1]

Morcheeba

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Additional musicians

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  • Henry Law – drum programming (tracks 1, 11, 12), ambience (11)
  • Alex O'Keeffe – drum programming, sample programming (tracks 2, 7); Super 6 synthesisers (7); string arrangements, brass arrangements (4, 6)
  • Jaega McKenna-Gordon – drums (tracks 2, 9), drum fills (4), backing vocals (9)
  • Steve Gordon – bass (tracks 2, 6, 9), backing vocals (9)
  • Oscar Worldpeace – vocals (track 3)
  • Juanito – tambor alegre (es) (track 3)
  • Alex Cornish – viola, violins (tracks 4, 6)
  • Idris Rahman – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (tracks 4, 6)
  • Robin Hopcraft – trumpet (tracks 4, 6), trombone (4) flugelhorn (6)
  • Ghilli Gordon – Fender Rhodes piano (track 4)
  • Hush Counsell – drum programming, sample programming (track 8)
  • Jordan T. Hadfield – piano, backing vocals (track 9)
  • Edmund Adonis – congas, percussion (track 9)
  • Nina – backing vocals (track 9)
  • Amy – backing vocals (track 9)
  • Arla-Rose – backing vocals (track 9)
  • Tagaranyika Mhizha – backing vocals (track 9)
  • Margo Raats – backing vocals (track 9)
  • Amanda Zamolo – vocals (track 11)
  • El Leon Pardo – gaita (track 11)
  • Mr. Six – decks (track 11)

Technical

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  • Alex O'Keeffe – co-production (tracks 2, 7)
  • Darren Heelis – mixing
  • Plamen Vasilev – mixing assistance
  • Filipe Melo – mixing assistance
  • Julia Borelli – mastering
  • Grant Strang – drums recording, percussion recording, piano recording
  • Adam Shanahan – drums recording, keyboard recording
  • Alex Cornish – strings recording
  • Ryan Adam – Hammond Organ recording

Visuals

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  • Caroline Darche – illustration
  • Michelle Hayward – photography

Charts

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Chart performance for Escape the Chaos
Chart (2025) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11] 197
French Albums (SNEP)[12] 72
Scottish Albums (OCC)[13] 23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[14] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[15] 71
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[16] 9

References

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  16. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 31 May 2025.

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