Today, Sycco — aka Sasha McLeod, the 22-year-old First Nations singer, songwriter, and producer who is “one of Australia’s most promising pop acts” (Vogue) — follows up on the announcement of her debut LP Zorb (out August 23) with another track off the album called “Monkey Madness.” Listen to “Monkey Madness” here + preorder Zorb here.

As Zorb combines dizzying hyper-pop with acid-fried garage rock, “Monkey Madness” becomes the record’s poster child. A high-octane track complete by relentless drum breaks and syrupy auto-tune vocals, “Monkey Madness” lives in a world between King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s fever dreams and PinkPantheress’ danceability.

Of “Monkey Madness,” Sycco says: “I wrote ‘Monkey Madness’ after having a few drinks with my friends Yari (my housemate) and Paddy (my drummer), and we decided to go to my studio that I had set up in my garage. We made it just for fun and were sampling our voices to sound like synths, which are still in there. When Jeremy [Chrome Sparks] and I were working on the album, I showed him ‘Monkey Madness’ and he instantly said we had to work on it. It didn’t change too much from the original demo. I’m so keen to play this live, I want people to open the pit!”

Watch the video for “Monkey Madness” here.

Previous glimpses of the glowing sounds in Zorb came with “Touching and Talking” (“a swirling synth-pop groove that captures the fleeting feeling of love at first sight” – Rolling Stone), “Swarm” (“a glittering painting of an awfully lonely experience” – Earmilk), and “I’d Love To Tell You” (“a trippy daydream…recalls a bit of the addictive energy that propelled Troye Sivan’s ‘Rush’ to the forefront of the pop conversation in 2023” – Consequence).

For the past three years, Sycco has lived in a crumbling apartment in Brisbane with a resident crew of housemates who have become each other’s chosen family. Zorb was born out of that scrappy apartment and the experiences she had there: first love, first heart-break, and forming the friendships that sustained her through it all. They referred to that inner sanctum as “the Zorb” – an in-joke that captured the way they felt like they were in their own private Zorb ball. Hence, Zorb.

Sycco penned some tracks together with her housemates, as they together poured the feeling of big group hugs and living room dance parties to song. Others are her own private ruminations on romantic entanglements, growing up, and coming to see the world in wholly new ways. Sycco wrote and co-produced every track on the album, completing it with collaborators including Chrome Sparks, Flume, Mallrat, Banoffee, and Styalz Fuego. Made electrifying by Sycco’s unique synth-driven, psychedelic pop music, Zorb is a journey through the wonderful chaos of your early 20s; a love letter friendship and the chosen communities that hold us when it feels like the world is going sideways.

Having garnered over 65 million career streams to date (with help from “Ripple,” her hit track with Flume), Sycco’s also seen praise from Billboard, NYLON, Paper, KCRW, and triple j, to name only a few. She has supported Tame Impala as well as Glass Animals on tour, played some of Australia’s biggest festivals, and already accumulated a list of industry accolades: a Times Square billboard as the face of Spotify’s Equal Campaign, named one of Apple Music’s “Up Next” artists,  honored with Australia’s prestigious Levi’s Music Prize, and more.