Sudan Archives Shares Single ‘A BUG’S LIFE’ Out Now
SUDAN ARCHIVES
SHARES NEW SINGLE “A BUG’S LIFE”
NEW ALBUM THE BPM OUT THIS FRIDAY VIA STONES THROW
ON TOUR IN THE UK, EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA
Sudan Archives‘s much-anticipated third album THE BPM drops this Friday 17th October. Today, she releases the final pre-album teaser in the form of house-inspired track “A BUG’S LIFE”, which premiered on BBC Radio 1 as their Hottest Record in the World.
THE BPM was recorded in Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, the rich culture of dance music in the latter two cities inspiring Sudan Archives to create what she calls “Orchestral Black Dance Music”. “A BUG’S LIFE” is perhaps the track on THE BPM to most explicitly reference Sudan Archives’ Midwestern roots and the dance music that gives this record its edge, with its house rhythm and backing vocals. The song celebrates freedom, Sudan Archives envisioning herself “flying to the moon” and embodying another personality – chaotic, impulsive, and running away without looking back.
Listen to “A BUG’S LIFE” HERE or via the player below.
Sudan Archives – “A BUG’S LIFE”
Official Video by Alexa Carrasco
On THE BPM, Sudan Archives moves with style and grace through her most expressive, extroverted record yet. She has always used personas to translate her energy on each album – on Athena, she was a classical goddess; on her breakthrough album Natural Brown Prom Queen, she inhabited Britt, the Cincinnati girl with big dreams. On THE BPM she introduces Gadget Girl, a technologically advanced musician, and imagines a dazzling, chrome-plated future in which we’re all tapped into our own sense of rhythm. “No one can take away your rhythm from you – no one can take away your self-will,” she explains. The ideas she explores on the record all ultimately draw back to this one idea. “All those things can be your own power if you utilize them right.”
To get to that place, Sudan had to look back at her own history. THE BPM taps into her mother’s roots in Michigan and her father’s in Illinois. As well as embracing club sounds from Chicago and Detroit, it takes in everything from Jersey club to global dance musics, with Sudan’s fiddle playing and elastic voice at the fore. Sudan Archives executive produced the album, working with a close circle of family and friends. Surrounded by this trusted team, Sudan was free to experiment and dig deep into her psyche for a record that’s both party-starting and vulnerable, hi-energy and vividly personal.
Sudan Archives tours the UK & Europe this November, before a major tour in North America. See below for all dates and buy tickets at sudanarchives.com/tour.
SUDAN ARCHIVES ON TOUR
25 October – Paris, France, Arte Concert Festival **SOLD OUT**
7 November – Los Angeles, CA, Lodge Room Festival
27 November – Berlin, Germany, Betonhalle
29 November – Amsterdam, Netherlands, Paradiso
30 November – Brussels, Belgium, Botanique – Orangerie
1 December – Paris, France, Le Trianon
3 December – London, UK, The Roundhouse
4 December – Manchester, UK, Academy 2
5 December – Leeds, UK, Stylus
6 December – Glasgow, UK, QMU
8 December – Dublin, Ireland, The Academy
16 January – Tucson, AZ, La Rosa
17 January – Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom
20 January – Dallas, TX, Trees
21 January – Austin, TX, Radio/East
23 January – Atlanta, GA, Masquerade Hell
24 January – Asheville, NC, Orange Peel
25 January – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
27 January – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
29 January – New York, NY, Webster Hall
30 January – Boston, MA, Royale
31 January – Montreal, QC, Le Studio TD
1 February – Toronto, ON, The Academy
3 February – Nashville, TN, The Basement East
5 February – Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall
6 February – Madison, WI, Majestic Theatre
7 February – Minneapolis, MN, Fine Line
10 February – Denver, CO, Gothic
11 February – Salt Lake City, UT, Complex in the Grand
13 February – Portland, OR, Revolution Hall
14 February – Seattle, WA, Neptune
15 February – Vancouver, BC, The Pearl
18 February – San Francisco, CA, Regency Ballroom
19 February – San Diego, CA, Music Box
1. DEAD
2. COME AND FIND YOU
3. YEA YEA YEA
4. TOUCH ME
5. A BUG’S LIFE
6. THE NATURE OF POWER
7. MY TYPE
8. SHE’S GOT PAIN
9. DAVID & GOLIATH
10. A COMPUTER LOVE
11. THE BPM
12. MS. PAC MAN
13. LOS CINCI
14. NOIRE
15. HEAVEN KNOWS
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