Today, Wichita-based electronic-jam outfit 2ŁØT releases its sophomore album RE/SOLVE, an ambitious 16-track journey through identity, loss, connection, self-reflection, and what happens after survival. Following the band’s debut album Entropy, RE/SOLVE expands both the scope of 2ŁØT’s genre-blurring sound and the creative community surrounding it, bringing together GRAMMY-winning artists Jon Batiste, Robert Randolph, and Eric Krasno, alongside 2026 NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner Cameron McCloud of Cure for Paranoia, Elise Trouw, Frank Moka, Mariel Jacoda, The Funky Knuckles, and others.
With the full album now available, listeners can also hear “Don’t Give Up On Me” featuring Jon Batiste, one of the record’s most anticipated collaborations and the latest in a series of tracks from RE/SOLVE that pairs 2ŁØT with artists from across the musical spectrum. Batiste joins a collection of collaborators that includes Robert Randolph on “I Need You To Believe,” Eric Krasno on the soulful “Iris,” Cameron McCloud and Elise Trouw on “I Hurt Myself Again,” Frank Moka on “Tread,” and Mariel Jacoda on the album closer “I Want It All.”
That breadth is central to RE/SOLVE. Rather than treating genre as a boundary, 2ŁØT uses its self-described Electronic Jam Music (EJM) as a meeting point for electronic production, live improvisation, soul, funk, jazz, rock, and hip-hop. The result is an album that can move from hypnotic electronic grooves and atmospheric introspection to jazz-inflected interplay and deeply soulful live performances while remaining rooted in the same larger story.
That story begins where Entropy left off. 2ŁØT formed as its members were navigating loss and major life changes, taking its name from the Second Law of Thermodynamics and building the project around the idea of using creativity, connection, and purpose to push back against the disorder that inevitably shapes our lives. If Entropy confronted that chaos, RE/SOLVE turns its attention toward what happens afterward.
The band describes the album as a “Second Hero’s Journey” — the less tidy process that begins after the initial breakthrough, when the survival story has already been told but the work of understanding who you have become is only beginning. Across 16 tracks, the album moves through changing identities, relationships, disillusionment, self-reflection, and renewal without pretending that transformation arrives at a clean endpoint.
“The aim is to mythologize the cyclical process of self-reflection, transformation, and self-actualization through a Campbellian archetypal lens,” shares vocalist Rudy Love Jr. “The songs are specifically written and ordered to tell a story that takes the listener on this adventure with us.”
The road to RE/SOLVE has gradually revealed that journey from several different angles. “Favorite Star,” produced by RY X, explores the disconnect between who others remember and who we have become. “Come Together” wrestles with trust and uncertainty inside a new relationship, while “Tread” leans into the band’s jazz and improvisational instincts.
“I Hurt Myself Again,” featuring Elise Trouw and Cameron McCloud, examines how distance can reshape our understanding of the past. “Lose My Mind” captures the hypnotic emotional spiral following a fractured relationship, while “Iris,” featuring Eric Krasno and members of The Funky Knuckles, turns toward resilience, self-discovery, and recognizing your own worth.
The album arrives after a period of rapid creative expansion for 2ŁØT. Over the past year, the band has worked with Steve Aoki, Paul Oakenfold, Aloe Blacc, Albert Harvey, and Michael Kang of The String Cheese Incident, crossing naturally between electronic, jam, soul, funk, and improvisational music without settling into any one scene.
Their collaboration with Aloe Blacc, “Immortal,” led to a live performance together on KTLA and a feature in SPIN. Meanwhile, two collaborations with Steve Aoki, including a Dim Mak release, along with a run of dance-charting releases, introduced 2ŁØT to an increasingly global electronic audience.
Rather than pulling the band away from its roots, those experiences helped widen the musical vocabulary brought back to RE/SOLVE. The new album feels like the fullest expression yet of the idea behind 2ŁØT: musicians from different backgrounds and corners of contemporary music gathering around a shared belief in creativity as a response to disorder.
That philosophy extends beyond the studio. 2ŁØT uses its music and platform to engage with addiction awareness and prevention, youth empowerment, and criminal justice reform, connecting the personal questions running through its songs with a broader belief in community and social impact.
Live, the band continues to translate that approach into an immersive combination of improvisational musicianship, electronic production, and cinematic visuals. Recent appearances have included Treefort Music Fest and Breakaway Music Festival, with additional Breakaway performances and select live dates continuing around the album cycle.
RE/SOLVE is out now on all digital platforms.
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