Ledisi has simply formally introduced her lengthy anticipated upcoming album. The title of the mission is “The Wild Card” and it’s set to launch on August 28th, 2020.
We additionally get our first take a look at the quilt artwork of the album.
The lead single from “The Wild Card” is “Something for You” which launched earlier this yr together with an intimate quarantine video for the track. The track has been steadily transferring up the Grownup R&B radio Charts, and was just lately essentially the most added track at stations.
This will probably be Ledisi’s ninth album total and the primary she’s going to launch through her personal label Pay attention Again Leisure. Throughout a latest interview we performed with Ledisi, she stuffed us in on creating the album:
This album I started working with musicians, again to the fundamentals, and I obtained to play with background vocals and harmonies extra. I’ve at all times produced my initiatives, however this time I actually produced my mission. I had plenty of management over how I needed it to be produced. Then I labored with different feminine songwriters. I labored with Robert Glasper after all, he’s on there. We wrote songs collectively within the studio collaboratively. It felt actually good to have management over what I needed to do and take full credit score as a producer. Earlier than I wouldn’t do it, I’d simply keep out of the best way. I’ve by no means been so clear on a mission I’ve executed apart from my very starting. This mission has all R&B/Soul in each stage. Whether or not it’s old-fashioned, fashionable, or 90’s, Neo-Soul stuff. It goes all the best way round of what the eclectic vitality of what Ledisi is. Not one specific Soul/R&B, it’s all of them which have influenced me.
Keep tuned for extra information concerning the upcoming album from Ledisi!