After recently making her welcomed return, which included a thrilling performance as part of Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre last month, as well as a sold out residency at Los Angeles’ Sun Rose on Sunset Strip, Lady Blackbird releases her new single, the stunning psychedelic gospel hymn ‘Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)’, taken from her brand new studio album Slang Spirituals, out September 13th.
The soulful orchestral fanfares of this beautiful new track, that has sprung out of the traps was penned in hotel bars after exhilarating shows or in impromptu studio sessions, and is a remarkable work of soul-searching and self-acceptance. It sees Lady Blackbird repeating the freeing line, “Heaven is just a game not meant to last,” playfully casting off her previous religious shackles over ornate swells of choral harmony. Listen here
In taking charge of her own life and her own sound, Lady Blackbird walks a new path, making each note on Slang Spirituals a step in a radically different direction. Across 11 tracks Lady Blackbird puts her sweeping, cinematic vocal power to use on everything from the finger-picking folk storytelling of ‘Man On A Boat’, euphoric gospel empowerment of ‘Like A Woman’ and the seven-minute avant soul instrumentation of ‘When The Game Is Played On You’.
Lady Blackbird will be supporting Moby in the UK & Europe on tour as part of his 25th Anniversary of ‘Play’, from September 16th-25th (including London, The O2 on Sep 19th), before heading into Europe for her own headline run from November 16th – December 7th.
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