Mel Blue release sophomore album “nomorejacketsplease” + share vulnerable new single “Be That to You”

Electronic trio Mel Blue release their new album nomorejacketsplease, an album informed by, and devoted to, London’s unique and vibrant underground dance music scene. Alongside the album, the trio also share their euphoric new single “Be That to You”.

The trio – Oscar Sharah, Jacob Siles, and Luke Gerber – explain; “Like everything we make, `nomorejacketsplease’ is a homage to all of our favourite artists, songs, and sounds. A line can be drawn from each reference in our songs to a specific moment or experience we had with another song. I think that’s why nostalgia is so central to our sound.

“’Be That To You’ is a big reference to Massive Attack. I’d (Luke) just seen them with my siblings at their festival they put on in Bristol in 2024. A big part of the sentimentality of this song is that it’s so representative of my siblings and having to be apart from each other while we each are on our own odyssey.

“Lyrically this song might be Oscar’s most vulnerable moment on the album. A lot of the album is him wrestling and taking responsibility for his choices and how they impacted the relationships around him. ‘Be That To You’ is him realising that he let down the person closest to him, the last person he’d want to hurt, and dealing with those implications.”

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Mel Blue fuse nostalgia and modernity; crafting dance music imbued with a combination of reflection and forward-thinking creativity. Splitting their lives between Sydney and London, the trio have built a solid reputation for their euphoric hybrid dance music. At its core their sound is melancholy and introspective yet delicately balanced with wistful textures and filtered through a rose-tinted lens.

Infused with underground bass influences (jungle, dubstep, DnB, UKG, and breakbeat), nomorejacketsplease captures both the excitement and uncertainty of starting anew in a foreign city. It’s a bold stylistic shift from 2023’s Sanctuary Point and is ultimately a story of redemption, friendship, and growth, narrated through fast tempos, atmospheric synths, and danceable yet contemplative soundscapes.

Throughout 2023 and 2024, Mel Blue immersed themselves in London’s iconic electronic music culture, frequenting festivals like Junction 2 and Body Movements, and pioneering clubs such as Fold, The Cause, Phonox and Fabric. This, alongside early exposure to genre-defining acts like Underworld, The Prodigy, and Massive Attack profoundly shaped their sound. Yet, despite the musical inspiration London proved challenging; far from the instant career boost they anticipated. Initially isolated and struggling to adapt, the band members found themselves recalibrating their expectations and rediscovering their creative spark.

The band shares, “While we were surrounded by life altering musical experiences, we were also managing the fact that London was turning out to be so different to what we had imagined. We went over believing London would slingshot us into the next part of our careers: that we would be gigging all the time throughout Europe and making music constantly. It was not like this.

“When we first went over [to London], the future of Mel Blue was not clear. We weren’t even sure if or how we could continue. Luke and Jacob, who was to rejoin Mel Blue later in London, got 9-5 jobs as schoolteachers to pay the bills.”

Mel Blue approached the creation of this album with a liberated mindset, casting off previous expectations to pursue a more instinctive and boundary-pushing sound.

As Oscar Sharah explains, “We came into the studio not really sure where we wanted the music to go…we knew that we needed to approach our time in the studio with fearlessness.”

That fearlessness reverberates across the album’s dancefloor-ready beats, atmospheric synths, and deeply human storytelling.

With nomorejacketsplease, Mel Blue delivers more than an album, they offer a sonic memoir of resilience and artistic evolution, where underground dance music becomes a vessel for reflection, redemption, and joy.

nomorejacketsplease Tracklist:

1.Slice
2. Frake
3. 2 Go
4. $ame Thing
5. atleastnowweknowwhattodo
6. Say Say
7. None of That
8. Secret Crush
9. Same as I  
10. Be That to You
11. B UR  
12. Diamonds