Nia Archives followed her Mercury Prize-nominated debut with a sophomore album that doubles down on what made Silence Is Loud work: jungle beats colliding with indie sensibility. Emotional Junglist arrives in July, and the lead single "Boys In Blue" arrives today as a playful, clever breakup anthem that proves Archives isn't interested in moody introspection. She's working with James Ford, the producer who's shaped records for everyone from Florence and the Machine to Depeche Mode, which signals the album's ambition to reach beyond the niche that discovered her last year. The move makes sense. Archives doesn't make music for purists. Her sound is deliberately dissonant, pulling 90s drum and bass out of its dark corners and dragging it into guitar-forward indie pop territory. A Mercury Prize nod doesn't guarantee anything, but it does signal staying power, and a major producer partnership suggests her label and collaborators believe in the next chapter.