Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
Moonchild Sanelly is the South African ghetto-funk superstar who’s collaborated with artists including Beyonce and Tierra Whack, Gorillaz, Steve Aoki and more. Today, she announces her third studio album, Full Moon, out January 10, 2025 via Transgressive Records, along with her 2025 UK and Ireland headline tour.
Full Moon is a collection of 12 tracks showcasing Sanelly’s unique sonic fingerprint, joyous attitude, distinctive vocals and genre-bending hit-making prowess, including and the album’s latest single and video, “Do My Dance,” out now.
Recorded in Malawi, the UK and Sweden, and produced by Johan Hugo (Self Esteem, MIA, Kano), Full Moon’s club-ready beats oscillate between electronic, afro-punk, edgy-pop, kwaito, and hip-hop sensibilities. With “Do My Dance,” listeners get a taste of the scope and ambition of the album. High octane and anthemic, “Do My Dance” bounces across styles and tempos, with rapid-fire verses underpinned by an audacious Happy hardcore beat, bursting into a bright, bold singalong chorus. The video for “Do My Dance,” directed by Nate Thomas, was filmed in Johannesburg and features the artist in all her glorious aesthetic, crowned by her signature teal-coloured Moon Mop.
“I called this record ‘FULL MOON’ to convey a really clear sense that I got from living and writing these experiences,” notes Moonchild. “Phases showcased all my sides, the different phases of the moon, and this one is all those parts of me being in unison with each other. When the moon is in phases, it shows parts of itself at a time. Full Moon is me, lit up in my entirety. The arrival of my whole self. It’s the arrival.”
“FULL MOON is a culmination of everything that I needed to experience to get to this point, every emotion I had to feel, everything I went through,” she adds. “This project has it all, from beginning to end. The fights, the sadness, the getting back up, the letting go, the forgiveness, the acceptance. There’s a sense of mental and spiritual togetherness that comes with forgiveness and it makes you whole. So here I am, a FULL Moon.”
TOUR DATES
10/31/24 – Tou Scene, Stavanger, NORWAY
11/01/24 – Molde Mundo, Molde, NORWAY
11/02/24 – Oslo World, Oslo, NORWAY
11/04/24 – Quasimodo, Berlin, GERMANY
11/05/24 – DE VK, Brussels, BELGIUM
11/06/24 – Le Hasard, Paris, FRANCE
11/07/24 – Op Locatie, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
11/11/24 – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, UK – SOLD OUT
11/12/24 – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
11/13/24 – Colours, London, UK – SOLD OUT
03/19/25 – Deaf Institute, MANCHESTER, UK
03/20/25 – Grand Social, DUBLIN, Ireland
03/21/25 – The Wardrobe, LEEDS, UK
03/22/25 – King Tuts, GLASGOW, UK
03/24/25 – Hare & Hounds, BIRMINGHAM, UK
03/25/25 – Strange Brew, BRISTOL, UK
03/26/25 – Heaven, LONDON, UK
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