Free Nationals detail debut album with new Syd collaboration "Shibuya"
08 November 2019, 16:05
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Free Nationals have shared new Syd collaboration "Shibuya", as well as unveiling details of their forthcoming self-titled debut album.
"Shibuya" features The Internet's Syd, and arrives after earlier offerings "Eternal Light" featuring Chronixx, "On Sight" with Kadhja Bonet, JID, and MIKNNA, "Beauty & Essex" with Daniel Caesar and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and "Time", a Kali Uchis collaboration that featured a posthumous verse from Mac Miller.
Free Nationals' forthcoming debut album will feature other collaborations with longtime collaborator Anderson .Paak, T.I., Callum Connor, Benny Sings, and more.
Tracklist:
- Obituaries
- Beauty & Essex (feat. Daniel Caesar, Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
- On Sight (feat. JID, Kadhja Bonet, MIKNNA)
- Shibuya (feat. Syd)
- Gidget (feat. Anderson .Paak)
- Rene (feat. Callum Connor)
- Time (feat. Kali Uchis, Mac Miller)
- The Apartment (feat. Benny Sings)
- Cut Me a Break (feat. T.I.)
- Eternal Light (feat. Chronixx)
- Oslo (feat. Callum Connor, T. Nava)
- Lester Diamond
- Poolside (feat. Anderson .Paak)
- Rivington (feat. Conway, Westside Gunn, Joyce)
"Shibuya" featuring Syd is out now. Free Nationals' self-titled debut album lands 13 December via Empire and Anderson .Paak's OBE Records.
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