Perera Elsewhere shares double single and announces new album

Perera Elsewhere returns with new double single and fourth studio album announcement

Berlin-based, UK-raised producer and electronic artist, DJ and lyricist Perera Elsewhere has returned with a bold new double single F*ck Le System / Time Will Tell, featuring Côte d’Ivoire rapper Andy S. Both tracks are out now via Friends Of Friends, alongside a visualiser showing the pair performing the lead track.

The release coincides with the announcement of her fourth album Just Wanna Live Some, due on Friday 24 October 2025. The 12-track project expands Perera Elsewhere’s adventurous sound palette, blending grime, electro-rap, deep bass and poetic abstraction with her own trumpet-led production. Album artwork comes from Hugo Holger Schneider and Gene Glover.

F*ck Le System is a charged burst of tech-dancehall and electro-rap driven by syncopated typewriter clicks and Perera’s trumpet stabs, with Andy S delivering direct bars like “Long story short bro fuck le système”. Time Will Tell takes a darker tone, combining glitchy beats with Andy S’s reflective flow and Perera Elsewhere’s minimal, ghosted vocals.

The collaboration follows a chance artistic connection: Perera first played Andy S’s music during her Boiler Room Berlin set last year, triggering Andy S’s breakout moment in the German capital and subsequent shows at Fusion Festival and Cassette Head Sessions.

Speaking about the collaboration, Perera Elsewhere said, “It’s been a huge pleasure to work with Andy S, she is super focused in the studio. When she came to Berlin last summer for her Goethe Institute residency, we recorded Time Will Tell. It was an instrumental that I had already finished and Andy was totally into it. She wrote and recorded Fck Le System* to a raw beat I had sent her. Later I built the rest of the track around her. It’s amazing to see how Berlin literally loves her! The UK will get to know her next.”

Describing the new project’s sonic breadth, Perera added, “I guess I sound fatter and faster sound-wise than ever before, with less introspection and more driving tunage and instrumental music on this album. There have always been songs and instrumentals on my albums. They have evolved in texture and balance but have strong elements of continuity nonetheless. I still manipulate my voice and use it an instrument or as percussive passages. Sound design / aesthetics are very important to me, as is musicality. A strong element of Bass and sub bass, from Bristol to Berlin, via London haha.

“This new music is influenced by the grimey off-kilter club music I’ve been dancing to or playing for years. Recording with my trumpet has been special for me. On the album there’s tracks which sound like they are a soundtrack for some epic blockbuster sci fi movie, and songs which make you wanna cry and then get up for a dance and fight a war on all injustice out there. Like for anyone on any day, there are moods and mood-swings!”

Perera Elsewhere’s prior work has earned acclaim from Dazed, Pitchfork, FADER, and Vogue. Her discography includes Everlast (2013), All Of This (2017), and Home (2022), with her style often described as “doom folk” — a term coined from her genre-blending approach to voice, bass and ambient textures.