"It’s a fun, up-tempo club record": MNEK returns with "Reverse!!" single and announces new album Bulldozer!!
Ahead of his international Pride shows, MNEK has returned with his first new music in seven years, sharing the single "Reverse!!" and confirming that a new album, Bulldozer!!, will arrive later this year.
The multi-Grammy and Brit-nominated singer and producer - whose stage name is an Gramogram of his birth surname Emenike - last released a full-length collection in 2018, with Language. His forthcoming record, due this autumn, he describes as his “most certain piece of work”.
"Reverse!!" draws from rowdy underground UK club styles and 00s-era R&B.
“It’s a fun, up-tempo club record with a really tongue in cheek lyric,” Mnek said of the single. “I’ve played it out in a few clubs these past few months and the response has been great."
The accompanying video, directed by Douglas Reddan, sees Mnek performing in a dimly-lit underground car park flanked by body-popping street dancers and vintage sports cars.
The single arrives off the back of a busy period for the artist, including a main stage performance at Mighty Hoopla and a second Grammy nomination earlier this year for his co-writing work on Zara Larsson’s 2025 album Midnight Sun.
MNEK is due to headline Pride in London on Saturday 4 July, alongside further festival appearances at Chicago Pride, Ty Tea Venti Pride in Brooklyn, and World Pride in Amsterdam over the coming months.
Bulldozer!! is released later this autumn via Polydor
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