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A crowded Paris dance hall seen from the balcony, couples filling the floor beneath a lit stage

Barry Can’t Swim

blog single
Grand bal
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Dance Dance
Dance!

№ NMU 260723 B · blog singlerel. July 23, 20263 min 38 s · stereo · Atlantic
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A new single, out on Atlantic on July 24, 2026. Barry Can’t Swim, the Edinburgh producer and DJ Joshua Mainnie, turns to French touch here, with shimmering synths, a keytar and French vocals. It is his second release for Atlantic, after “Return To Bhibo”.

Barry Can’t Swim (Joshua Mainnie), Edinburgh. Released by Atlantic Records, July 24, 2026. His debut album, When Will We Land? (2023), was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Sources: BroadwayWorld. Photograph: the Coliseum Duque’s dancing, a grand bal at 65 rue Rochechouart, Paris, 1920, press photograph by Agence Rol, Bibliothèque nationale de France (public domain). Wikimedia Commons.

№
NMU 260723 B
artist
Barry Can’t Swim
title
Dance Dance Dance!
artist
Joshua Mainnie
influence
French touch
from
a single (2026)
label
Atlantic
photograph
Agence Rol, Coliseum Duque’s dancing, Paris, 1920. BnF. Public domain.
filed
July 23, 2026
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