Out Now: Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
SUDAN ARCHIVES
Natural Brown Prom Queen
Homecoming UK Tour This November
New Album Released Today
Watch The Official Videos For OMG BRITT, NBPQ (TOPLESS), SELFISH SOUL, & HOME MAKER
“One of those records that invites you to get comfortable in its dizzying headspace.”
The Observer ****
“The joy of Natural Brown Prom Queen is in the openness she grants to her listeners: a rare glimmer of an artist who is radically vulnerable, in all her glory.”
DJ Mag
“Natural Brown Prom Queen is a celebration: of creative freedom, of Black and brown women, of Brittney Park’s colourful inner world.”
Crack 9/10
“Natural Brown Prom Queen revels in ear-catching beats and hooks while still maintaining Parks’ mile-a-minute rate of musical ideas… ‘Am I good enough?’ she wonders momentarily on ‘Selfish Soul’. More than: we scarcely deserve this.”
Uncut 9/10
“A bold sequel whose charms unravel further with each listen.”
MOJO ****
Sudan Archives has just released her hotly anticipated second album Natural Brown Prom Queen via Stones Throw. From first listen, it’s immediately apparent that Natural Brown Prom Queen is Sudan’s most ambitious work to date, ranging from the disco-influenced R&B of ‘Home Maker‘ , to Afrocentric anthem ‘Selfish Soul‘, to the wild ride of ‘NBPQ (Topless)‘, and beyond. Her routinely imaginative and world-building videos, including her latest genre-defying gesture ‘OMG BRITT‘, earned her a spot in YouTube Music’s Foundry Class of 2022.
The overarching theme of Natural Brown Prom Queen is home – which manifests in lyrics about both Sudan’s adopted hometown of Los Angeles and Cincinnati, where she grew up. Across the album’s 18 songs she explores themes of race, womanhood, and the fiercely loyal, loving relationships at the heart of her life with family, friends, and partner. Writing on the album, poet Hanif Abdurraqib states that “Natural Brown Prom Queen is an album of many movements and ruminations, but almost all of them trace back to the multiple ways that a person can find and re-find home. In flimsy, shifting geography, in the fights and triumphs that filter into interactions with beloveds and kinfolk, and, of course, the mighty work of home-making within oneself.”
Sudan is set to embark on the Homecoming Tour later this month, her first proper headline tour since 2020. Fresh off a sweaty run of UK festival appearances that included All Points East, FORWARDS, and End of the Road, as well as having held her own performing solo as support on Tame Impala’s North American tour last year, she has honed her electrifying live show to mesmerizing heights. Tickets are on sale now – full dates below.
SUDAN ARCHIVES – ON TOUR
Homecoming Tour – North America
September 24: SOLANA BEACH, CA, Belly Up Tavern
September 25: SANTA BARBARA, CA, Soho Music Club
September 26: SACRAMENTO, CA, Harlow’s
September 27: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, The Independent
September 29: PORTLAND, OR, Mississippi Studios
September 30: VANCOUVER, BC, Fortune
October 1: SEATTLE, WA, Neumos
October 4: MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Fine Line
October 5: CHICAGO, IL, Lincoln Hall
October 7: TORONTO, ON, Axis
October 8: OTTAWA, ON, Bronson
October 10: CAMBRIDGE, MA, The Sinclair
October 11: PHILADELPHIA, PA, World Cafe Live
October 12: BROOKLYN, NY, Elsewhere (The Hall)
October 14: WASHINGTON, DC, Black Cat
October 15: PITTSBURGH, PA, Sound Series Block Party
October 17: ASHEVILLE, NC, The Grey Eagle
October 18: ATLANTA, GA, Terminal West
October 19: NASHVILLE, TN, The Basement East
October 21: LOS ANGELES, CA, Lodge Room
Homecoming Tour – UK & EUROPE
4 November: MILAN, ITALY, Circolo Magnolia
5 November: ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, Moods
6 November: MUNICH, GERMANY, Ampere
8 November: VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Grelle Forelle
9 November: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, Futurum Music Bar
10 November: WARSAW, POLAND, Hybrydy
12 November: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Hotel Cecil
13 November: BERLIN, GERMANY, Metropol
14 November: HAMBURG, GERMANY, Uebel & Gefährlich
15 November: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Paradiso Noord
17 November: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Orangerie
18 November: PARIS, FRANCE, Pitchfork Music Festival
20 November: GLASGOW, UK, SWG3 Studio Warehouse
21 November: DUBLIN, IRELAND, Whelan’s
23 November: LONDON, UK, KOKO
24 November: MANCHESTER, UK, Band on the Wall
25 November: BARCELONA, SPAIN, Las 2 de Apolo
Watch Official Videos:
‘OMG BRITT’
‘NBPQ (Topless)’
‘Selfish Soul’
‘Home Maker’
Natural Brown Prom Queen Tracklisting:
Home Maker
NBPQ (Topless)
Is This Real? (Can You Hear Yourself?)
Ciara
Selfish Soul
Loyal (EDD)
OMG BRITT
ChevyS10
Copycat (Broken Notions)
It’s Already Done
FLUE
TDLY (Homegrown Land)
Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)
Freaklizer
Homesick (Gorgeous & Arrogant)
Milk Me
Yellow Brick Road
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