Escape the Chaos

Escape the Chaos is the eleventh studio album by British electronic band Morcheeba. It was released on 23 May 2025 under 100% Records. It was preceded by three singles: "Call for Love", "We Live and Die", and "Peace of Me", which features rapper Oscar Worldpeace.

Band member, singer and songwriter Skye Edwards revealed in a June 2023 interview that the band had begun working on their eleventh album with ten tracks in the demo phase.^[2] Ross Godfrey stated, "This whole record is a process of trying to reconnect with what really matters [...] whether it's what in your heart or with the world, putting your feet on grass and feeling the earth beneath you".^[3]

Promotion

Singles

In January 2025, the band released the single "Call for Love"^[4] A visualiser, created by Dean Eastman and Caroline Darche, was released on the same day.^[5]
"We Live and Die" was released as the album's second single on 28 February 2025.^[6]^[7]
"Peace of Me", a collaboration with Oscar #Worldpeace was released on 8 April 2025 as the third single^[8] An official music video, created by Eastman and Darche, was released on the same day.^[9]

Live performances

Morcheeba performed at the Concorde 2 in Brighton on 22 May 2025.^[10]

Track listing

*Escape the Chaos* track listing^[1]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Call for Love"	Ross Godfrey Skye Edwards	4:22
2.	"Elephant Clouds"	Godfrey Edwards Alex O'Keeffe	4:14
3.	"Peace of Me" (featuring Oscar Worldpeace)	Godfrey Edwards Oscar Nyanin	2:44
4.	"We Live and Die"	Godfrey Edwards	3:14
5.	"Far We Come"	Godfrey Edwards	4:44
6.	"Molten"	Godfrey Edwards	4:41
7.	"Bleeding Out"	Godfrey Edwards O'Keeffe	5:43
8.	"Cooler Heads"	Godfrey Hush Counsell	2:11
9.	"Hold It Down"	Godfrey Edwards Jordan T. Hadfield Steve Gordon	3:10
10.	"Dead to Me"	Godfrey Edwards	4:10
11.	"Pareidolia" (featuring Amanda Zamolo)	Godfrey Amanda Zamolo	3:44
12.	"Escape the Chaos"	Godfrey Edwards	4:56
Total length:			47:58

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[1]

Morcheeba

Skye – vocals (tracks 1–7, 9, 10, 12); whistle, cello (5)
Ross Godfrey – production (all tracks), guitar (1–4, 7–11), Jupiter synthesisers (1–3, 6, 10, 12), Wurlitzer piano (1, 2, 5, 10, 11), ambience (tracks 1, 4–7, 12), bass (1, 4, 5, 8, 10); clavinet, Hammond organ (1); EMS synthesisers (2), drum programming (3–6, 10, 11), sample programming (3–6, 11), Mellotron (5–7, 10, 12), acoustic guitars (5, 6), slide guitars (5, 12), Moog synthesisers (6, 8, 9), electric guitars (6), piano (7), Fender VI (8, 11), charango (8); Solina String Ensemble, Landscape Stereo Field (12)

Additional musicians

Henry Law – drum programming (tracks 1, 11, 12), ambience (11)
Alex O'Keeffe – drum programming, sample programming (tracks 2, 7); Super 6 synthesisers (7); string arrangements, brass arrangements (4, 6)
Jaega McKenna-Gordon – drums (tracks 2, 9), drum fills (4), backing vocals (9)
Steve Gordon – bass (tracks 2, 6, 9), backing vocals (9)
Oscar Worldpeace – vocals (track 3)
Juanito – tambor alegre [es] (track 3)
Alex Cornish – viola, violins (tracks 4, 6)
Idris Rahman – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (tracks 4, 6)
Robin Hopcraft – trumpet (tracks 4, 6), trombone (4) flugelhorn (6)
Ghilli Gordon – Fender Rhodes piano (track 4)
Hush Counsell – drum programming, sample programming (track 8)
Jordan T. Hadfield – piano, backing vocals (track 9)
Edmund Adonis – congas, percussion (track 9)
Nina – backing vocals (track 9)
Amy – backing vocals (track 9)
Arla-Rose – backing vocals (track 9)
Tagaranyika Mhizha – backing vocals (track 9)
Margo Raats – backing vocals (track 9)
Amanda Zamolo – vocals (track 11)
El Leon Pardo – gaita (track 11)
Mr. Six – decks (track 11)

Technical

Alex O'Keeffe – co-production (tracks 2, 7)
Darren Heelis – mixing
Plamen Vasilev – mixing assistance
Filipe Melo – mixing assistance
Julia Borelli – mastering
Grant Strang – drums recording, percussion recording, piano recording
Adam Shanahan – drums recording, keyboard recording
Alex Cornish – strings recording
Ryan Adam – Hammond Organ recording

Visuals

Caroline Darche – illustration
Michelle Hayward – photography

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[11]	197
French Albums (SNEP)^[12]	72
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[13]	23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[14]	18
UK Albums (OCC)^[15]	71
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[16]	9

v t e Morcheeba
Ross Godfrey Skye Edwards Daisy Martey Paul Godfrey
Studio albums	Who Can You Trust? (1996) Big Calm (1998) Fragments of Freedom (2000) Charango (2002) The Antidote (2005) Dive Deep (2008) Blood Like Lemonade (2010) Head Up High (2013) Blaze Away (2018) Blackest Blue (2021) Escape the Chaos (2025)
Compilations	Parts of the Process (2003)
Singles	"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" "Enjoy the Ride" "Gained the World" "Even Though"

Promotion

Singles

Live performances

Track listing

Personnel

Morcheeba

Additional musicians

Technical

Visuals

Charts

References

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