Lee “Scratch” Perry recorded Spatial, No Problem with Mouse on Mars in Berlin in December 2019, nearly two years before he died in August 2021. The album, arriving June 5 via Domino, is his final studio work, and it is stranger and more alive than posthumous records have any right to be.

Eight tracks, recorded at Mouse on Mars’ Paraverse Studio, built around the kind of creative encounter that sounds impossible to arrange in advance and equally impossible to manufacture. Jan St. Werner, one half of the German electronic duo, described it simply: “We hardly spoke about what we were doing. We met and got going. He was laughing a lot and we laughed along. We also cooked and ate fish soup and papayas.” The title itself came from a conversation about spatial audio. When they asked Perry if he was familiar with it, he said: “Spatial, no problem.”

The lead single “Rockcurry” makes a strong case for the rest of the album. Mouse on Mars bring their characteristic density, that layered electronic shimmer that sits somewhere between experimental club music and sound sculpture, and Perry rides across it with the loose authority of a man who invented his own physics. His voice is weathered in a way that sounds like time made audible. At 85, the man who built the Black Ark studio and essentially rewired how recorded music could work in the 1970s still sounds like he’s operating in a system no one else has access to.

What’s remarkable is how little this sounds like a legacy project. Perry was not a curator of his own mythology. He was making records the way he always made records, through instinct and collaboration and a complete disregard for the idea that he should be slowing down. The Berlin recording sessions don’t feel tentative or elegiac. They feel like work.

From June 5 to June 13, the Barbican’s Project A Black Planet exhibition will present the album in spatial audio at The Pit, using a D&B Soundscape sound system. That staging matters. This is music that rewards the full physical experience of sound.

Spatial, No Problem is not a farewell album in any conventional sense. It is just the last one. Perry sounds like he had more records in him, and the fact that this is where the catalogue ends feels genuinely unfair. But the music itself is not mournful. It is joyful, weird, and completely alive. Which is exactly how you’d want to go out.

Lee “Scratch” Perry with Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
Released June 5, 2026. Domino.