Marci is back, and the announcement lands with real weight: a new album, Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, arriving in August on Arbutus. This is the moment fans have been waiting for. After that self-titled 2021 debut, all glossy synth-pop shimmer and hooks that stuck for weeks, Marta Cikojevic returns with a record that promises to push the sound further.
The lead single arrives with a killer visual too. Geoffrey Scott directed and animated the video, and it fits the after-hours mood the title hints at.
Think of the way "Terminal" glowed with that late-80s warmth. That craft is still here, sharpened and stretched into something new. Arbutus has always been the perfect home for this kind of dreamy, off-kilter pop, and Marci sits right in the pocket.
Everything about this era feels intentional. The mask, the late night, the shimmer underneath it all.
August cannot come fast enough. This one has sleeper hit written all over it, so mark the calendar now.