With What About Love, released October 10th, 2025, MONKyMAN steps into a moment that feels earned. The Berlin-based producer’s rise has taken shape through steady releases, 3.2 million Spotify streams, and a touring schedule stretching from South Africa to New York, Thailand to Paris. His festival presence includes Apple Tree Garden Festival with Biig Piig and Bombay Bicycle Club, plus Fusion Festival alongside ARTBAT, Monolink, and K.I.Z. Support for the album and its focus track from CLASH Magazine, Electronic Groove, House Music With Love, U.S. National Public Radio, and La Belle Musique signals how widely his work now resonates. Shaped by early beat-making experiments in Namibia and an eclectic mix of influences like André 3000, Frank Ocean, Sun Ra, & more. His sound blends curiosity with emotional candor.
Across the album, he threads self-searching themes through jazzy instrumentals, soulful textures, and Afro-leaning rhythms. The standout, ‘Better In Love’, feels like the album’s emotional anchor. It builds from glittering percussion and warm low-end movement into a vocal performance that taps into something direct and unguarded. The track has a sense of forward motion, shaped by the kind of rhythmic pulse that has defined his live sets across continents.
MONKyMAN revealed: “‘Better In Love’ has been with me since 2019 – it started as a simple jam made of loops that I played live at the end of every set. Over the years it’s travelled with me through countless festivals and countries – constantly changing and evolving.
When I decided to put it on the album, it finally became a real song, a kind of conclusion to the whole journey. The message is simple: walking through life with love just feels better than walking with hate, greed or envy. Some might call that cheesy, but it’s true.
‘Better In Love’ closes the album just like it always closed my live shows: as a reminder that love really is the force that brings us all together.”
What About Love Tracklist:
1. What About Love feat. Ibon Goitia
2. Hambelela feat. Vaudeni
3. Paint a Picture
4. Didn’t See It Coming
5. Celebration
6. Interest
7. Hold Me Baby
8. Lil Misery / Lil Mystery
9. Shivers feat. Coco Elane
10. Fucking With Jesus feat. Ibon Goitia
11. Better in Love
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