Artist-producer MIN t is set to release her third studio album Before The After on May 8, 2026, marking a bold new chapter in her evolving body of genre-defying electronic music. Ahead of the album’s arrival, the Berlin-based artist has already unveiled two singles, “Hope” and “Last Day,” with “Hope” accompanied by an official music video that begins to shape the emotional and sonic world of the project.
“With ‘Hope’, and now with the release of its official music video, MIN t begins to outline the emotional tone of the music she will be sharing in the coming months,” notes METAL Magazine, highlighting the track’s role as an early entry point into the album’s conceptual framework.
With Before The After, MIN t continues to position herself as one of Europe’s most forward-thinking electronic artists — a sentiment echoed by LOCK Magazine, which described her as “fearless in her experimentation, meticulous in her craft, and utterly unafraid to make music that resonates on both a visceral and cerebral level.”
The album follows her 2023 release Shot to Pieces, a project that drew critical attention for its emotionally intense and stylistically unbound approach. tip Berlin described the record as sounding “wonderfully shot to pieces,” while Musikexpress highlighted her performance-driven ethos, stating, “MIN t jumps into her songs like there is no tomorrow.” Meanwhile, Artnoir framed her work as a blend of intensity and physicality, noting that it spans “Industrial Soul, Electronica, Art Pop” with music that can be both deeply immersive and physically liberating.
Born Martyna Kubicz, the Polish artist behind MIN t has built a multidisciplinary foundation as a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and mix engineer. Now based in Berlin, she is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music campus in Valencia, where she studied on scholarship. Her musical training began early, with classical piano studies at age seven and more than a decade of formal education at a music school in Wrocław, Poland.
By her teenage years, she was already writing songs and performing in local bands, exploring jazz, pop, soul, and electronic music. At 18, she began producing her own work, quickly gravitating toward Ableton, which became central to her experimental and highly self-sufficient creative process.
Across her career, MIN t has supported artists including HVOB, Angel Haze, Jess Glynne, and Vitalic, while performing more than 300 live shows across Europe. Her festival appearances include Reeperbahn Festival, Off Festival, Orange Warsaw Festival, Open’er Festival, and Y Not Festival, alongside a recent European tour with Saya Noé and OIEE, which included stops in Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, and Bochum.
Musically, MIN t operates in a deliberately fluid space between electronic music, pop, and R&B, drawing influence from artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, Charli XCX, D’Angelo, FKA twigs, and Aretha Franklin. That wide-ranging palette is reflected in the sound of Before The After, a project that merges bass-driven production with emotional songwriting and experimental textures.
The album’s title track serves as its lead statement, opening with drum and bass-inspired percussion, a distorted bassline, and an energetic vocal performance layered over swelling, uneasy synths. Elsewhere, tracks like “Hope,” “Last Day,” and “Water” lean into vulnerability through UK garage-influenced rhythms and introspective songwriting. “Digital Flower” pushes further into experimental territory with glitch-heavy, granular production, while “Hangover” introduces reggaeton-inspired percussion, underscoring her refusal to be confined by genre expectations.
Speaking about the record, MIN t describes Before The After as a reflection of collapse and reconstruction. “Before the After tells the story of a tainted world where hope is becoming harder and harder to find,” she explains. “Each song strips away another layer of my belief in a better tomorrow. I explore themes of apocalypse, self-destruction, and toxic relationships, as reality itself begins to fall apart. Yet, on the ruins of that reality, I still see a chance to reclaim my agency.”
She adds that transformation remains central to the album’s emotional core: “Becoming aware of my own mistakes is the first step toward change, and transformation can ultimately lead to regaining control over my own life.”
With Before The After, MIN t continues to refine a sonic identity built on contrast — vulnerability and intensity, structure and chaos, precision and emotional release — positioning the album as both a personal reckoning and a forward push into new experimental territory.
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