Friday Dance Music Guide: The Best New Tracks From Fred again.., Lil Yachty & Overmono, Gessafelstein & More

This week in dance music: Daft Punk wax figures were debuted at Madame Tussauds New York, Movement revealed its full 2024 lineup, Creamfields did the same, Fred again.. sold a boatload of tickets very quickly in Australia, we talked to Charli XCX about her forthcoming album, BRAT, and talked to Kylie Minogue about being an all time legend.

And of course, here are the best new dance tracks of the week.

Fred again.., Lil Yachty & Overmono, “stayinit”

For as much giddy brightness that exists within the Fred again.. oeuvre, melancholy and a certain wistfulness are also defining elements of his sound. His latest, “stayinit” falls into the territory of these latter moods, with Lil Yachty delivering the pleading and/or encouraging lyrics “you’ve got a life, stay in it,” over a siren synth tuned to a minor key and increasingly pummeling percussion that altogether builds to a sort of hypnotically spooky place. The track is a collaboration with U.K. duo Overmono and was debuted during a pop-up show from the three acts at New York’s Knockdown Center on February 9. “stayinit” lands amid Fred’s continued world domination, with the producer selling 100,000 tickets to six arena shows in Australia in just a few hours earlier this week. The tour promoter reported that over a million people were in the queue to try to get get seats.

Gessafelstein, “Hard Dreams”

“I’m your slave, and you’re my queen,” French vocalist Yan Wagner declares via chantlike vocals on Gessaffelstein’s latest. “I picture ourselves in a Hollywood dream.” Any dream with the mood conjured on this track would be an intense (but not necessarily unpleasant) one, with “Hard Dreams” getting into a darkly swaggering, Depeche Mode zone that feels like a natural extension of the French producer’s historically dark, heavy, deeply cool catalog. The track is the lead single from Gesaffelstein’s forthcoming Gamma — his third studio LP and first since 2019’s Hyperion — out March 29, with a performance at Coachella to follow in April.

Diplo & Sharam feat. Pony, “Anthem”

Diplo delivers one of his best in a minute with the hella ravey “Anthem.” Securely in the pocket of the underground vibe that his house label Higher Ground has been championing since its 2019 launch, the track is a collaboration with Iranian producer Sharam (of Deep Dish fame) and Canadian rapper Pony, whose breezy flow and soulful melodies about the straightforward joy of being, as he says, “hiiiiiigh,” are the secret sauce here. The accompany video, featuring a roomful of ravers in their best Y2K redux fits, was shot in Montreal.

LP Giobbi & hermixalot, “How Deep Is Your Love”

LP Giobbi kicks of Women’s History Month with FEMME HOUSE Volume 2, a compilation of music by artists united under her FEMME HOUSE brand. An active and ongoing champion for the representation of female, gender nonbinary and underrepresented groups within the dance scene, on “How Deep Is Your Love” LP delivers one of the hard-hitting but nuanced, emotionally uplifting, psychedelia inflected and altogether totally soulful piano house bangers that are her signature, with vocals from FEMME HOUSE co-founder (and power-lunged singer) hermixalot. “2% of producers are female,” LP says in a statement, “and this compilation highlights some of my favorite female and gender-expansive producers/artists that are changing the game right now.” The compilation is out via Insomniac Records.  

SG Lewis & Chloe Caillet, “Costa”

SG Lewis launches his new label Forever Days — positioned in a statement as a home for “club-focused productions made strictly for the dancefloor and a place to champion music by artists that he loves” — with a song that is… exactly one of those. Made with New York City producer Chloé Caillet, “Costa” is three and half minutes of peaktime house bliss, characterized by the same brightness and cool that defines much of Lewis’ catalog.