Back in the ’90s, Stereolab introduced the world to an alternate vision of the future — slick, sparkling, and endlessly cool, yet still bubbling over with undeniable warmth and kindness. Today, 10 days before the 30th anniversary of their debut album Peng!, that vision is all but dead; we’re closer to the late-capitalist industrial apocalypse predicted by Trent Reznor and Genesis P-Orridge predicted than the technological utopia Stereolab’s quietly evocative frontwoman Lætitia Sadler prophesied.

“In The Dark,” arriving today from the mind of chameleonic Ontarian producer MISZCZYK, is a glimmer of hope in our trying times. For one thing, it features Sadler herself, singing gauzily over his buzzing instrumental, which could easily pass for a B-side pulled from the sessions of Stereolab’s second studio LP, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements. “There’s time left in the day / Still so much to do and say / The rosy dawn is still to break,” Sadler sings, still holding out hope for a brighter morning ahead.

The new track is the lead single from MISZCZYK‘s debut LP, Thyrsis of Etna, due out July 15 via We Are Time. In addition to Sadler, the record will feature guest contibutors Vanessa Hay (Pylon), Edgar Breau (Simply Saucer), Chandra Oppenheim, Craig Fahner (Motorists), and The Space Lady, among others.

Watch Jesse Yule’s cheery, animated visuals for “In The Dark” below.