Sam Prekop has announced a new album of modern minimalist pop music, Comma (Thrill Jockey), out July 10th. Along with the announcement, Prekop has shared the album’s first single “Summer Places”, a transportive and intoxicating piece of tropical futurism featuring electronic loops cascading over melodic percussion.

Sam Prekop’s boundless imagination is guided by his strong sense of melody. For more than 25 years, as a solo artist or as part of The Sea and Cake, Prekop creates a singular sound inventive and warm. His distinctive vocals, guitar playing, and work on modular analog synthesizers are inventive, delicate, and always bear his signature sense of melody. Comma finds Sam Prekop for the first time working extensively with beat programming, focusing his enveloping synthesizer pieces around a newfound rhythmic pulse.

Comma taps into the experimental heritage of the synthesizer.  The album places Sam Prekop’s work squarely in the tradition of electronic music pioneers like Brian Eno and Yellow Magic Orchestra who brought together the unrestrained ambition of the avant-garde with the immediacy and accessibility of pop.