Santigold New Album ‘Spirituals’ Out Friday
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New Album Spirituals, Out This Friday 9/9
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Santigold will release her fourth album, Spirituals, this Friday September 9 to acclaim spanning Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, FADER, Billboard, PAPER, NYLON, W Magazine, HipHopDX, VIBE, Stereogum, SPIN, Alternative Press and much more. Renowned for her boundary-free art and uncontainable urge to push towards the future, the anxious confinement of the past couple of years became a battle to protect that spirit. Writing these songs was her way to access freedom and push towards the light, finding a sense of ascension.
“Spirituals is a uniquely personal album for me because, more than ever, it’s an album about the process of creating—a testament to the spiritual quality of creation and its deliverance.” She also shares, “If I had to sum up the experience of this record in one image, it would be ushers at a church, dressed in white from head to toe, and I’m the churchgoer who they fan and support, crowding around me as I shake, thrash, and speak in tongues as I take off, and then I’m gone. Ascended. And then I realize that all the ushers were me.”
Along with Santigold, the producers and contributors on Spirituals include Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner, SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson. A fiercely innovative artist always looking to break from the limitations of the music business, it is the first Santigold album released on her own label Little Jerk Records and is distributed by Secretly Distribution.
Santigold has also engaged in new ways to express and release her ideas, allowing her greater range to be even truer to her creative intentions on her own terms. She created Spirituals as a multisensory experience that includes not only the music and video vignettes, but new ways of sharing her visual art, a forthcoming tea collection, and some small-batch natural skin-care products; all bearing the same brand name, Spirituals. She will also be releasing a new podcast in which she interviews other artists and visionaries around some of the same themes explored in her music. Santigold has other literary, film and product lines in the works as well.“I want to continue branching out into all forms of art,” she says. “And I’m really excited to let my music take me to new places.”
While taking yourself to new places is core to Santigold’s outlook at this point in her impressive career, she has always been an artist who has charted new paths in the world of pop music and beyond, breaking down barriers of genre along the way, further cementing her as an essential artist when surveying the last two decades of popular culture at large.
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