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DAPHNI ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM BUTTERFLY, OUT 6 FEBRUARY 2026

SHARES TWO LEAD SINGLES ‘WAITING SO LONG (FEAT. CARIBOU)’ AND ‘LUCKY’

PLAYS SOLD OUT 7 HOUR SET AT LONDON’S FOLD ON 22 NOV

‘Waiting So Long (feat. Caribou)’:
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‘Lucky’:
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Listen to Caribou’s recent collaboration with Fred again… ‘Facilita’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyN690O51-I

Daphni has today announced his new album Butterfly will be released on 6 February 2026 via Jiaolong, his first Daphni album since 2022’s Cherry – “Bar for bar, this might be the most fun there is to be had on a dance record this year” – 8.2 ‘Best New Music’ Pitchfork. Along with the announcement he has today shared two lead singles ‘Waiting So Long (feat. Caribou)’ and ‘Lucky’.

An unlikely collaboration – in that both artists are the same man, Dan Snaith – ‘Waiting So Long’ is not so much an identity crisis, ego trip, or the result of a chemical spill in the Snaith laboratory. It’s simply a track that Snaith felt for the first time belongs to both aliases, and might appeal to fans of both. He has never sung on a Daphni track before, and did not set out with the intention to do so this time, and yet this strange billing was born.

Speaking of the track Snaith says:
“People understandably always ask about the difference between Caribou and Daphni music – how I decide which is which. I think there have been times where the music I’ve made under the two aliases has been farther apart and times – eg right now – where they’re closer together. One big thing that has always differentiated them is my voice. I’ve never sung on a Daphni track. When I started ‘Waiting So Long’ initially it was an instrumental. The lyric and the melody came to me as I was working on it and I just recorded it without thinking too much about it, but when I listened back to it a few days later it was the first time that i’ve had the sense that a track belonged to both aliases – like Daphni had sampled a Caribou vocal or something like that. I’m not in the midst of some existential crisis; I haven’t, hopefully, slipped too deep into the welcoming waters of the pool of Narcissus; I don’t agonise about what track ends up under what alias – in fact the opposite. I worry about it less than ever and just go with my gut instinct. On a practical level I just felt like this was a track that both Daphni and Caribou fans might want to hear.”

‘Lucky’ meanwhile couldn’t be more Daphni – a showcase of the wonderful variety and surprising twists and turns that have always made Daphni albums so exciting. Not the kind of music that you might hear in the main room of a huge club – though many of the tracks on Butterfly can do that better than anyone -, ‘Lucky’ is one of a clutch of other tunes that might creep out somewhere more off the beaten path. A track that really has no business being on the dancefloor at all, and yet it’s the most fun you’ve had all night.

“Daphni music is still music that I’m making primarily for the purpose of playing in my DJ sets”, Snaith says of the album’s variety, “the majority of the tracks on this record I do play regularly in my sets. But then there are a bunch – slower, weirder – that I don’t usually play… or wait… maybe the point is that I’d only play them in the right club.”

One such club is a good microcosm for the ethos of Butterfly as a whole. “Around the time I was finishing up this album I played a long set in a club called Open Ground in Wuppertal, Germany.” Snaith recalls, “It’s kind of, in one sense, the platonic ideal of the kind of club I’d want to play in. Every single decision has been taken, at great expense, with the aim of making the perfect sounding medium sized club room. But on top of it being the perfect acoustic environment it also is run by an amazing collection of people in a way that gives it a sense of community that dance music at its best provides. It is an absolute pleasure to play in that room to a crowd of people who come from all over. Playing in there you feel like you can play anything, and I played works in progress of pretty much every track on this album in my set there. Don’t get me wrong, I love playing a short set at a festival or in a more raw warehouse kind of club where you bang it out and only really functional music works but on record I guess the point of these Daphni records is to keep in mind a more expansive idea of dance music where the parameters are broad and the church is broad. I think that actually putting really functional stuff next to weirder tracks (both on an album and in a dj set) might be the thing that’s still most interesting to me.”

Pre-order Butterfly here including on limited twister vinyl:
https://daphni.lnk.to/Butterfly_Buy

High-res images can be found here

Photo credit: Theo Batterham

Butterfly tracklist:

1. Sad Piano House
2. Clap Your Hands
3. Hang
4.  Lucky
5. Waiting So Long (feat. Caribou)
6. Napoleon’s Rock
7. Good Night Baby
8. Talk To Me
9. Two Maps
10. Josephine
11. Miles Smiths
12.  Goldie
13. Caterpillar
14. Shifty
15. Invention
16. Eleven