How ‘butter’ Reflects SOFI TUKKER’s New Style

If BREAD was SOFI TUKKER ’s scorcher—the kind of album that strutted across your speakers with neon boots and zero apologies—butter is the inevitable exhale. It’s what happens when the adrenaline subsides, the strobe lights dim, and you let yourself sway instead of jump. Due out May 16th, this new LP isn’t just a sonic shift. It’s an aesthetic molting.

The duo, long celebrated for turning EDM into a multilingual, multicultural playground, peels back their high-octane layers and slides into something warmer, slower, and deeply textured. Think bossa nova’s gentle pulse, samba’s bright flirtation, and the aching romance of bolero and bachata. Yes, there’s still bass. But this time it’s lounging in a hammock, not shaking the rafters.

What’s particularly gutsy is the reworking of past fan-favorites. “Throw Some Ass” and “Woof,” both brash bangers in their original form, are now served with a side of sultry sophistication. It’s a flex—transforming club anthems into lounge-worthy live cuts that feel more candlelit than kinetic. The first single, a silky reimagining of “Bread” featuring Brazilian icon Seu Jorge, drops May 2nd and might just be one of the duo’s most sensual tracks to date.

And if that wasn’t enough, they’re making the year count. A Wynn Las Vegas residency, a dedicated butter set at Newport Jazz Fest (yes, jazz), and a behind-the-scenes docuseries filmed in Brazil all underline that this isn’t a one-off concept album. This is a full-bodied era.

For fans who discovered SOFI TUKKER through their tropical house leanings or viral anthems, butter might seem like a curveball. But listen closely, and you’ll hear it: the same irreverence, the same cultural curiosity, just recast in a different light. Less blaze, more simmer.

butter is what happens when an act that could easily coast on festival bangers decides to deepen the groove instead. And in doing so, they’ve created something that doesn’t just stick—it lingers.