Erykah Badu and the Alchemist have been gearing as much as launch their debut collaborative album for the reason that spring of 2025. It seems they’ve lastly run out of gears. The duo has revealed an official launch date of August 28. With the announcement comes an un-announcement. Regardless of Alchemist divulging the title Abi & Alan in 2025, the information elides a mission title altogether. (A Bandcamp itemizing is titled “Sorry, we don’t have an album title but …”) The information does, nevertheless, characteristic a lead single, “Witch Physician.” Take a look at the music video for it beneath.
The “Witch Physician” visuals are a sequel to Badu’s controversial 2010 video for “Window Seat,” the place she stripped her garments then pretended to be gunned down on the website of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. Going down 16 years later the 10-minute “Witch Physician” brief follows Badu as she walks the streets at night time, going through progressively violent encounters. In the long run, she’s robbed of her garments somewhat than eradicating them herself.
Badu and the Alchemist, aka Alan Maman, co-produced their forthcoming LP over 18 months in Dallas and Los Angeles. The discharge, more likely to embrace the launch single “Subsequent to You,” is being dealt with by Management Freaq/Younger. The duo will tour North America collectively subsequent month.
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