Back with his fifth studio album, Joakim immerses us in a web of dream-like house and techno textures. Tropics of Love pushes into realms of dark isolation and velvet sexuality, creating an album that is by turns ecstatic, nostalgic and melancholic. The LP shares its name with a collection of ink drawings by French artist Camille Henrot, whose images cover the record’s sleeve. The drawings feature composite creatures with voracious sexual appetites and a love for cross-dressing.