Brooklyn duo Dancing In Tongues release ‘Petri Dish,’ a hazy electronic single born from IVF experience and the first taste of their upcoming EP
Dancing In Tongues write from inside life, not about it. “Petri Dish,” the new single from the Brooklyn-based duo of vocalist Sarah Martin-Nuss and drummer/producer David Nuss, arrives May 10, 2026, drawn directly from their personal experience with IVF. It is the first track off their forthcoming self-titled four-track EP, due July 3, and it sounds like nothing they have made before.
The song does not dramatize. It sits. Soft synth lines move through the mix without urgency, ambient and deliberate, while the percussion underneath keeps everything at a slow, patient burn. Martin-Nuss delivers her vocals close to the ear, intimate rather than theatrical, which is exactly right for a song about waiting, about holding out hope when the outcome is still unknown. There is tension in the restraint. The track holds comfort and unease in the same breath, never tipping fully into either.
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The duo recorded “Petri Dish” in Berlin alongside producers Lucas Herweg (LLUCID) and Jacob Bergson (TAUT), who collaborate under the shared name Designer. That transatlantic shift in environment seems to have unlocked something. The production carries a spaciousness that feels considered, not accidental. Layers of shimmering texture open and close around Martin-Nuss’s voice without crowding it, and the structure breathes the way good ambient music does: no moment announces itself, every moment lands.
That quality matters here more than it might elsewhere. Dancing In Tongues have always worked at the intersection of ambient electronics, avant-garde indie, and dance music, but “Petri Dish” finds them trusting the atmosphere entirely. No dramatic swell. No forced catharsis. Just the feeling of something uncertain, suspended, and real.
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Martin-Nuss is also a widely exhibited visual artist whose work, shown at the Rachel Uffner Gallery and Pace Gallery in Los Angeles, frequently explores biological systems and transformation. That sensibility carries directly into the song’s title and its emotional architecture. A petri dish is a place where life either takes hold or does not, a container for the most fragile kind of hope. She does not need to explain the metaphor. The music does it.
“Petri Dish” is quietly one of the most affecting things Dancing In Tongues have released. As a lead single, it sets a serious intention for the EP ahead. July 3 cannot come soon enough.
