Ela Minus and Nick León make espiral glow darkly inside a Smugglers Way club spiral

Ela Minus and Nick León’s espiral brings late-30-June electronic-pop tension into the 1 July batch with the kind of title that tells the body what to do before the brain catches up. The duo’s EP qué les pasó a mis amigos? arrives 7 August via Smugglers Way, followed by a physical edition with remixes from Loidis, Brenda and Guedra Guedra. espiral is described as darkly gleaming, slinky and subtle despite hard-hitting staccato synths that refuse to let go. That contradiction sounds exactly like the point. Ela Minus has always been good at making electronic music feel emotionally exact rather than merely sleek, while Nick León’s club language brings physical gravity and Miami-rooted bass memory. Together, they sound like they are building a spiral you can dance into, then realizing the exit is part of the tracklist.

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