BANKS announces her new album, SERPENTINA, out on April 8th
BANKS announces her new album, SERPENTINA, o
ut on April 8th
shares new single, ‘Holding Back’
PRE-SAVE SERPENTINA LISTEN / WATCH
BANKS announces details of her fourth studio album, SERPENTINA, set for release on April 8th via AWAL. The 13-track full-length was written and co-produced by BANKS and features greatly-received singles ‘Skinnydipped’ and ‘The Devil,’ as well as her latest track out today, the rousing, anthemic ‘Holding Back’, which she performed live on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. Watch HERE.
‘SERPENTINA’ sees BANKS enter previously uncharted territory in every sense—from sound to lyrics to visuals, and everything in-between. “In the past I’ve been really tight and controlled, and I don’t feel like that right now,” says BANKS. “I just feel more wild and free.”
That sense of playfulness and reinvention is encapsulated in the album’s title. ‘Serpentine’ was a word BANKS remembers doodling in her school journals, while the “a” at the end represents a feminisation of that idea—an embodiment of a kind of snake queen, as BANKS describes it. “Snakes represent rebirth and the shedding of one’s skin,” she says. “They just move on, and I think that’s what life is about. Changing and transforming, with a little bit of danger, but also smooth and silky. It just felt like the perfect representation. This album feels regal to me, but also my most human ever. So I think it kind of touches both ends of the spectrum.”
Following a year of intense isolation during lock-down, a traumatic break-up and some serious mind-and-body wake-up calls, SERPENTINA marks an exciting new chapter in an already illustrious career. BANKS is releasing music independently for the first time (via AWAL), as well as co-producing every track. Since her spellbinding debut in 2014, BANKS has garnered more than 1.4 billion combined streams and headlined sold out shows and festivals all over the world.
Now, with a dedicated global army of fans, and a powerful body of work under her belt, the California-born artist, producer, songwriter and poet is declaring her independence once and for all, as she embarks on this new and empowering era of her musical career and personal life. This is the SERPENTINA era.
WATCH ‘Holding Back’ live on Kimmel