
Kelela announces debut album Take Me Apart and shares superb new track "LMK"
01 August 2017, 17:24
| Written by
Laurence Day
Kelela is back with the extradordinarily good "LMK", the first single from her upcoming debut record Take Me Apart.
The track follows Kelela's Hallucinogen EP which came in 2015. It's described in a press release as "a battle cry for independent women... [which] flips the heteronormative construct that women want to settle down."
Kelela's album news follows a bout of teasing and a letter posted to her "ride-or-dies" on Twitter:
TO ALL MY RIDE-OR-DIES... pic.twitter.com/zDYzttEJN2
— Kelela (@kelelam) July 14, 2017
Kelela's already been fairly busy this year, performing at major fests, playing with The xx, and collaborating with Gorillaz.
Tracklist:
- Frontline
- Waitin
- Take Me Apart
- Enough
- Jupiter
- Better
- LMK
- Truth Or Dare
- S.O.S.
- Blue Light
- Onanon
- Turn To Dust
- Bluff
- Altadena
Take Me Apart is out 6 October via Warp.
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