Space Dance is the third full-length release from Elevated Focusion, a New York artist known for mixing experimental pop with the grit of old-school street music. Built from analog synths, found sounds, and global collaborations, the album is restless, unpredictable, and achingly human. Like the city that shaped it, Space Dance never sits still long enough to explain itself — it just keeps moving forward.

The journey begins with Space Station Bugout, propelled by smoky bass textures and a pulsating bass line. The combination of atmospheric synths, robust rhythm section and sensual vocals reminded us of Ladytron's genre-defining Destroy Everything You Touch.

Drugs and Outerspace continues in the same vein, this time adding a sassy punk-spirited vocal delivery to the mix. The track is adorned by snake-charming sax solo that opens up another dimension in an already musically deep and rich piece.

Raving on That Galactic High, on the other hand, leans toward the atmospheric, fusing viscous psychedelic madness with an unexpectedly sweet touch of bubblegum Europop.

I Dream of Eden brims with rich, tasty, 90s-flavored sonic details. The vocals are delicately fragile, forming a striking counterpoint to the music’s dark, muscular drive.

Space Dance layers processed vocals, springy grooves, and shimmering arpeggios and synth pads, building a soundscape that’s as hypnotic as it is fun — equal parts NYC neon and late-night interstellar drift.

Cosmic Abstraction is the standout track on the album. It defies easy comparison, weaving chaotic synth swells that feel almost tectonic with silky, sweet male pop vocals, crisp drums, and a wild, unpredictable conga rhythm that keeps you off balance. It moves deliberately, yet hooks you in a way that’s disorienting, hypnotic, and oddly irresistible.

Planetary Exploration unveils uneasy, jagged synth pads that recall both peak-time Primal Scream and Scooter’s She’s the Sun. Against this, the spoken-word section lands like a warm, sensual foil, softening the tension while drawing you deeper into the track’s strange, magnetic orbit.

Space Rider is even more unsettling, with female vocals that oscillate between the haunting likeness to the timbre of Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) and delicate, almost operatic flourishes. The music twists through moments that feel like a disorienting bad trip, and by the end, the textures and mood somehow call to mind Coil’s shadowy experimentation.

Unfamiliar Eyes delivers more of those off-kilter, head-spinning textures, but the vocals take an unexpected turn into classic hard rock territory — think Aerosmith or Bon Jovi .

The album closes with Haunting Feeling, a track that drapes 80s-inspired, sci-fi synth pads over jittery, nervous drums, creating a tense, otherworldly atmosphere. The vocals are cold and confident, cutting through the layered textures like a navigator charting unknown territory.

Space Dance is a playground for the strange and unexpected. It’s glitchy, sweaty, neon-lit, and occasionally terrifying — synths wobble like they’ve had too much coffee, drums snap like street fights in an alley, and vocals pop up in ways you won’t see coming. Elevated Focusion throws every genre at the wall, from 90s techno synths to operatic flares to hard rock snarls, and somehow it all sticks together, beautifully messy and poisoningly magnetic.

By the time the last pad dies, it’s like someone ripped you apart and launched the pieces into deep space — you’re floating, scrambled, exposed, with nothing to grab onto but the void. And yet it’s beautiful. You stay. Maybe it’s you, the first spark of a new civilization drifting through the cosmos.