Sudan Archives Shares New Song ‘DEAD’ + Official Video

SUDAN ARCHIVES RISES

New Song ‘DEAD’ Out Now – An Exploration of Orchestral Black Dance Music

More than two years since her breakthrough second album Natural Brown Prom Queen, Sudan Archives rises again with ‘DEAD’, a new song that marks a more dancefloor-forward direction, released via Stones Throw.

Natural Brown Prom Queen documented Sudan’s move from Cincinnati to Los Angeles and her coming of age as an artist and woman. After touring with Andre 3000, Caroline Polachek, and Tame Impala, and playing festivals from Coachella to Glastonbury in support of Natural Brown Prom Queen, Sudan began imagining a new, advanced version of herself. She took everything she’d learned on stage and on the road back to the lab; ‘DEAD’ is the result.

On ‘DEAD’, a voice asks “Did you miss me?” It’s Sudan, but not as you know her – her voice morphed into different digitized textures that evoke a self split into different versions, a self altered with technology and experimented with or upon. The technological enhancements Sudan has visited upon herself empower her even as they break her, and on ‘DEAD’, she wrestles with a decision – who she is, and who she wants to be.

Recorded in Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, ‘DEAD’ explores the possibilities of orchestral Black dance music, and is Sudan Archives’ most high-energy, club-forward release to date. As she reconciles the human and machine halves of herself, she reclaims the feeling of being fully alive.