Ibeyi Map a New Course on First Album in Four Years, Offering, With “Aset”

Four years on from Spell31, Ibeyi are back with Offering, their first album since going independent and the first time the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz have fully reassembled in years. That distance matters here. The duo have spent recent years living apart, and this new record reads as a reconvening as much as a comeback, with the sisters pushing beyond the setup that defined much of their earlier work: voice, percussion, and piano, stripped down to its essentials.

You can hear that shift on lead single “Aset,” a track named for and inspired by the Egyptian goddess Isis. The song moves in a slow, drifting current, built from rippling percussion and soft synth tones, with the kind of sensual haze that lets it unfold without ever rushing to land. Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi co-produced it with Haitian producer Michaël Brun, whose own work often moves between Caribbean tradition and contemporary club language, and that sensibility fits neatly into the song’s shape.

The video, directed by Corry Van Rhijn and Roman Pichon Herrera, was shot in Havana and turns a sweaty apartment party into something almost hypnotic. The setting gives the song a different kind of charge, less polished than luxurious, more lived-in than posed. It’s the sort of visual that doesn’t need to overstate its point; it simply lets the atmosphere do the work.

Offering also arrives with a tracklist that suggests Ibeyi are still willing to widen the frame. Among the titles: “Olokun,” “Focus,” “Moshpit,” “The Process,” and “La tendresse d’un mot” featuring Sofiane Pamart. The full tracklist is below.

TRACKLIST:

01 “Olokun”
02 “Aset”
03 “Focus”
04 “Moshpit”
05 “Baba”
06 “The Process”
07 “Offerings”
08 “La tendresse d’un mot” (Feat. Sofiane Pamart)
09 “I Know You Loved Me”
10 “Good Life”
11 “Hurry Hurry”
12 “Lucky”

Offering is out 6/26; pre-order it here.