Little Simz has revealed her fifth album, NO THANK YOU, and you don’t have to wait to hear it. The 10-song LP is now available to stream below via Forever Living Originals/AWAL. NO THANK YOU reunites Little Simz, a.k.a. Simbi Ajikawo, with producer Inflo, who helmed her most recent effort, 2021’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and who also leads the prolific London indie-R&B collective SAULT. Just hours before the album’s release, Little Simz unveiled the 10-song tracklist alongside the cover art, which features a candid profile shot of the British-Nigerian rapper. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert ranked No. 5 on Consequence’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 list Related Video NO THANK YOU Artwork: <img data-attachment-id="1259932" data-permalink="https://consequence.n...
Lana Del Rey has announced a new album. Titled Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the singer’s ninth full-length arrives on March 10th, 2023. As a preview, Del Rey has shared the title track, which she co-wrote with Mike Hermosa. She also co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes. The album also features contributions from Father John Misty, Antonoff’s Bleachers, Jon Batiste, and Tommy Genesis. Advertisement Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean follows Del Rey’s pair of 2020 albums, Blue Banisters and Chemtrails Over The Country Club. She most recently popped up on Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, providing backing vocals on the track “Snow on the Beach.” Editor’s Note: See our updated list of Lana Del Rey’s 10 be...
Lana Del Rey has announced a new album. Titled Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the singer’s ninth full-length arrives on March 10th, 2023. As a preview, Del Rey has shared the title track, which she co-wrote with Mike Hermosa. She also co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes. The album also features contributions from Father John Misty, Antonoff’s Bleachers, Jon Batiste, and Tommy Genesis. Advertisement Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean follows Del Rey’s pair of 2020 albums, Blue Banisters and Chemtrails Over The Country Club. She most recently popped up on Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, providing backing vocals on the track “Snow on the Beach.” Editor’s Note: See our updated list of Lana Del Rey’s 10 be...
Caroline Polachek has announced Desire, I Want to Turn into You, her second solo album under her own name. It drops February 14th, 2023, and the former Chairlift singer is offering a preview with new single, “Welcome to My Island.” Polachek chose the album’s title to reflect two different impulses, as she explained in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “One, it can be read as being about the ‘you,’” she said. “We all know that feeling of falling in love, of wanting to obsessively learn from and become that person. But on the other hand, maybe desire is the thing you want to turn into itself.” No official tracklist has been released, but Desire, I Want to Turn into You reportedly features recent singles “Bunny Is a Rider,” “Billions,” and the Octobe...
100 gecs are back tenfold: Not only has the cult duo just announced that their next album 10,000 gecs is due out on March 17th, but they’ve surprise released a new called Snake Eyes EP. Since they came out swinging with their 2019 debut LP 1,000 gecs, 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady and Laura Les helped turn hyperpop from an underground subgenre into the sound of a generation. If the handful of singles they’ve release in the few years since are any indication, 10,000 gecs will see them go where no gec has dared to go before. Pre-orders for its physical release are ongoing. The three-song Snake Eyes EP includes the first official release of fan-favorite “Hey Big Man,” which 100 gecs have teased as the opener of their more recent live shows. The EP also includes songs “Torture Me” ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same: Jennifer Lopez has today announced a new album called This Is Me…Now, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of her 2001 LP This Is Me…Then. Lopez shared the news on Instagram today with a reel in which she recreates the original album art from when she was 32 (girl, drop that skincare routine!) before it transforms AI-style into the new album art (girl, drop that ab workout routine!!!). Her first proper studio album in eight years, This Is Me…Now is billed as the beginning of a “new era” for the multi-hyphenate star, in which she shares “confessional songs, reflections on the trials of her past, and upbeat celebrations of love while sharing some of her most vulnerable truths.” Notably, the record includes a track titled “Dear Ben Pt....
BTS leader RM has announced a new solo album called Indigo, which is set for release on December 2nd. Indigo “recounts the stories and experiences RM has gone through, like a diary,” a press release notes. “The album will present a different charm of RM with various featured artists.” Spanning 10 tracks, Indigo includes collaboration with Anderson .Paak and Erykah Badu. As part of BTS’ “second chapter,” a time for the group to explore solo activities alongside their work as a septet, RM is following bandmates j-hope, Jin, and Jungkook as the next member to release music on his own. Recently, j-hope unveiled his solo album Jack in the Box, Jin teamed up with Coldplay on “The Astronaut,” and Jungkook debuted “Dreamers” during the 2022 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony. Advertisement Related Vi...
Toronto rapper DijahSB has announced a new EP called Living Simple. The six-song project drops February 10th, while new single “Khadijah” is out now. Living Simple is tightly intertwined with Living Single. The EP’s name is a play on the ’90s sitcom’s title, while “Khadijah” is a reference to Queen Latifah’s character on the show, whom DijahSB’s mother loved so much that she named her child after them. Best of all is the project’s cover, which utilizes that nostalgic cartoon font. Check it out below. Understandably, the song “Khadijah” deals with the loneliness of living single, but the person Khadijah avoids self pity with a laid back, amiable beat. “I be at the crib like Khadijah/ Wondering if I will ever find somebody out here who’s a keeper,” the artist raps. L...
Six long years since his last LP Do What Thou Wilt, the once-prolific Ab-Soul is back to announce to his fifth studio album, Herbert. It drops December 16th via Top Dawg Entertainment, and Ab-Soul is offering a preview with the single “Gang’Nem” featuring Fre$H. The artist born Herbert Anthony Stevens IV came to prominence as part of the first iconic TDE class that also featured Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, and Jay Rock. He released four albums between 2011 and 2016 and then faded from public view, returning in 2020 with “Dangerookipawaa Freestyle” and guest appearances on albums by Isiah Rashad, Reason, and Jhené Aiko. So far this year he’s dropped “Hollaindaise,” “Moonshooter,” and “Do Better,” any of which might be appearing on ...
Bob Dylan will unveil the seventeenth installment of his Bootleg Series, centered around his 1997 comeback album and Grammy Album of the Year winner Time Out of Mind, on January 27th via Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings. Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 will be offered in 5xCD or 10xLP collections and comprised of a complete remix of the original album, two full records of studio outtakes and alternates, and two live compilations from that touring period. A scaled-down, 2xCD or 4xLP package is also available with the new remastered edition and select live cuts from the remaining discs. The boxset announcement arrives just after Time Out of Mind’s 25th anniversary in September. At the time of its release, Dylan’s 30th album was ...
Katherine Paul, a.k.a Black Belt Eagle Scout, has revealed her new album, The Land, The Water, The Sky, will arrive on February 10th via Saddle Creek. The news dropped along with the LP’s first offering, “My Blood Runs Through This Land.” The Land, The Water, The Sky largely focuses on Paul’s experience of moving back to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington from Portland, Oregon in 2020. In a statement, Paul shared that the album was created “to record and reflect upon my journey back to my homelands and the challenges and the happiness it brought.” She recorded the project in the ancestral Coast Salish territory with co-producer Takiaya Reed, and wrote and composed the set entirely on her own. The album’s simultaneous expression of grief and celebration is successfully intr...
Shame are back at it again: The UK rockers are set to share their next album Food for Worms on February 24th via Dead Oceans, and they’re celebrating the announcement today with its lead single “Fingers of Steel.” Additionally, the group have mapped out their largest headlining tour to date for 2023, trekking across Europe and North America. In a press release, frontman Charlie Steen describes Food for Worms as “the Lamborghini of Shame records.” We can neither confirm nor deny that analogy, but it’s true that the record marks a big step up in maturity for the London post-punks, who usher in a more polished sound here without compensating their edge. They cite influence from Lou Reed, as well as the ’90s indie rock group Blumfeld (Germany’s answer to Pavement or Pixies) during th...