Listen: Joy Orbison – ‘play it again’

Joy Orbison continues his journey into the boldest areas of electronic music with his latest single ‘play it again’ out now. ‘play it again’ sees the London-based innovator taking inspiration from his love of 80s New Wave and 90s electronica, rebooting them for 2025, and landing in a liminal musical space between headphone introspection and dancefloor abandon. Featuring a manipulated, mantra-like vocal, the single sees Joy Orbison (aka Peter O’Grady) pushing further into the personal, human dimension of his sound, one he first fully realised on 2021’s acclaimed debut longform record still slipping vol. 1 and more recently explored with ‘bastard’, his 2025 collaboration with underground rap icon Joe James.

Debuted over the summer to some of Europe’s more adventurous dancefloors, ‘play it again’ is the latest in a run of Joy Orbison releases that continue to sidestep expectations as he continues to work on the hotly anticipated follow-up to still slipping vol.1.

Stream / download ‘play it again’ here.