Sudan Archives has introduced her third album: The BPM is out October 17 through Stones Throw. The Los Angeles–based mostly musician’s follow-up to 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen contains current single “Dead,” together with two extra newly launched tracks, “My Type” and “Yea Yea Yea.” Watch the music video for “My Kind” and hearken to “Yea Yea Yea” beneath.
Sudan Archives partially accomplished The BPM in Chicago and Detroit. On the album, she introduces a brand new persona referred to as Gadget Lady. “I used to be by no means the woman in a band in highschool,” she mentioned in a press release, “I might solely specific myself for the primary time once I received my first iPad and began making beats on it, and once I received my first electrical violin. I’m all gadget-girl-ed-out now, however I’ve by no means felt so free as a human.”
Sudan Archives is happening a tour of Europe and the UK in assist of The BPM. The reveals happen within the autumn and comply with North American stops, like her efficiency at TV on the Radio’s new mini-festival in Brooklyn, New York. See Sudan Archives’ tour dates beneath.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2022 interview “How Sudan Archives Exploded Her Sound to Make One of the Year’s Best Albums.”
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The BPM:
01 Lifeless
02 Come and Discover You
03 Yea Yea Yea
04 Contact Me
05 A Bug’s Life
06 The Nature of Energy
07 My Kind
08 She’s Bought Ache
09 David & Goliath
10 A Pc Love
11 The BPM
12 Ms. Pac Man
13 Los Cinci
14 Noire
15 Heaven Is aware of
