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Touching Ice

Electro-industrial trio turning soft-grunge angst into blown-out dance pop

Based in Los Angeles, United States

IndustrialExperimental electronicNoisePop

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Pounding drum machines, distorted guitar, drone synths and circuit-bent noise frame Abigail Reese’s raw or sharply Auto-Tuned vocals. Their live set is likely to move between bruised, melodic passages and dense dancefloor pressure, with the compact punch of their debut album and the cleaner electro drive of “Trace me on2 u.”

More about Touching Ice

Touching Ice formed in Los Angeles in 2023, beginning as an experiment between Davis Stewart and Dominic Colangelo before vocalist and lyricist Abigail Reese completed the trio. Their 2025 debut arrived through American Death Records, followed by the 22-track remix project 100 of the Best EDM Songs, with versions from DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ, Mandy, Indiana, CFCF and The Bloody Beetroots. In October 2026 they moved to Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour for “Trace me on2 u,” just before their first UK and European dates.

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