1tbsp’s Big Soaps Puts miki on Two Tracks and Soltera Across Five
1tbsp has announced big soaps for February 5, 2027, through dottidot, introducing the album with ‘Carottes’, a collaboration with French artist miki. The Australian producer, whose name is Maxwell Byrne, has placed the new single eighth in a twelve-track running order that gives several collaborators room to return.
‘Carottes’ came from a brief overlap in Paris before miki left on tour. The pair wrote three songs in roughly two hours, with two making the album. For the single’s central synth chords, Byrne cut up a fragment from miki’s collection of found audio. The track is sung in French and includes a Korean bridge.
The second miki track is the closer, ‘Photoshop/Reformat’. There are three songs between it and ‘Carottes’, which sits at number eight. Anyone coming to the album through this single will have another collaboration from that Paris session waiting at the end. miki is one of several guests who appears more than once in the track list.
| Collaborator | Credited album positions |
|---|---|
| Soltera | 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11 |
| Cherry Chola | 4, 7 and 9 |
| miki | 8 and 12 |
Track seven explains why the totals need a little care. ‘Feel/Follow’ credits Soltera and Cherry Chola together. Count their appearances separately and that one song appears twice in the sum. Add kid on air’s credit on the fifth track, ‘Wish You Luck’, and the album has eleven guest credits on ten recordings. Only the opening two entries, ‘Bubble’ and ‘Heaven’, list 1tbsp alone.
Soltera has the longest reach across the record: five entries, beginning at track three and ending one song before miki returns. Cherry Chola appears three times, including the shared credit with Soltera. There is a chance to follow a collaborator through several different points in the running order. Whether those appearances connect musically is something the complete album will have to reveal.
For now, four recordings can be played with the digital preorder: ‘Pink Dress’, ‘Wish You Luck’, ‘Soulseek’ and ‘Carottes’. Together they run for 15 minutes and 23 seconds. The selection covers Cherry Chola, kid on air, Soltera and miki, giving each a place in the available preview. Eight tracks remain to come. The preorder includes the full album on release, rather than immediate access to everything in the list.
Byrne began 1tbsp in 2021, following his work as Golden Vessel. The new announcement identifies big soaps as his third album under the 1tbsp name. The guest list is one way into this next record: start with the four available songs, then see where those same names reappear in February. It gives the rollout a thread to follow beyond the latest single.