Brooklyn duo Dancing In Tongues return with Petri Dish, an electronic-indie single shaped by IVF, suspended tension, and fragile hope.
Written and produced in Berlin with Lucas Herweg (LLUCID) and Jacob Bergson (TAUT), working as Designer, the track opens their upcoming four-track EP of the same name.
Sarah Martin-Nuss and David Nuss keep the sound restrained and immersive. Ambient electronics, crystalline vocals, and fluid rhythms carrying the emotional weight without overstatement.
On Petri Dish, that system feels intentionally suspended. Shimmering synth layers, atmospheric textures, and restrained percussion hold the track between stillness and motion, while Martin-Nuss’s vocal stays close and exposed. Nothing is pushed too hard. The pressure comes from the waiting.
At its core, the single draws from the duo’s personal IVF experience, turning a private process of uncertainty, science, control, and hope into something wider without flattening its intimacy. The duo shares:
Petri Dish was written during IVF, an experience that revealed how quickly hope can take hold, even amid uncertainty…It was both emotionally taxing and undeniably miraculous.
That duality drives the track: anxiety and wonder, precision and surrender, human feeling placed inside a clinical frame. The production mirrors that emotional split, using texture and restraint rather than dramatic release.
With Petri Dish, Dancing In Tongues don’t turn vulnerability into spectacle. They let it sit in the mix. Unresolved, luminous, and quietly forceful.