British singer-songwriter Nao has launched her fourth album, Jupiter, by way of Sony Music UK/RCA Data.
Whereas it’s technically a follow-up to Nao’s 2021 album, And Then Life Was Lovely, it’s additionally a sequel to 2018’s Saturn.
“Jupiter is the sister album to Saturn,” Nao reveals. “The place Saturn was about robust classes and development, Jupiter is about coming by the opposite facet. It’s an album of hope, pleasure, and belief, of embracing enlargement after wrestle, of letting go and getting into one thing better. This music is a mirrored image of that freedom, a soundtrack for the second if you understand the universe was all the time working in your favor.”
Jupiter consists of the beforehand shared tracks “Wildflowers,” “Elevate,” “Glad Individuals” “All of Me” and “Gentle Years.”
Among the many album’s new tracks is the sunshine and ethereal “Poolside,” which floats between bliss and bed room temptation. “I like what you do / Yeah, you do it good / Come play in my poolside babe,” Nao sings within the irresistible refrain.
Talking on “Poolside,” Nao instructed Apple Music, “That is speculated to be pure pleasure. Simply pure enjoyable. It’s most likely probably the most pop-sounding file I’ve ever accomplished. I studied jazz for 4 years and the tradition of that was anti something business, so I feel I carried that with me for fairly a very long time. However I like business music.”
She continued, “Once I began ‘Poolside,’ it wasn’t my intention for it to return out that method, however it did, and I made peace with it and I used to be like, ‘That is type of hearth, really.’ So within the spirit of Jupiter and pleasure, ‘Poolside’ made it on the file as a result of that’s what I really feel it brings.”
On the contemplative “30 One thing,” Nao displays on her 20s whereas making peace with the place she is now: “‘Trigger I’ve been holding on to s–t that don’t belong to / Who I’m as a 30 one thing / And the story I’m in all the time convey me proper again to / Locations that I’ve gone to, despite the fact that I don’t wish to / All I actually know is I’m 30 one thing / And I’ve had my first child and I’m beginning to see it’s / All good.”
As famous above, Jupiter follows Nao’s 2021 album, And Then Life Was Lovely.
The latter venture featured Fortunate Daye, serpentwithfeet, Lianne La Havas, and Adekunle Gold.
On Tuesday (Feb. 25), Nao kicked off the U.Ok./Europe leg of her headlining tour in Amsterdam. She has upcoming stops in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Manchester, and extra earlier than concluding March 12 at O2 Academy in Brixton.
The North American leg begins April 17 at Tabernacle in Atlanta. From there, Nao will go to Brooklyn, Boston, Toronto, Seattle, and extra earlier than wrapping up Could 7 at The Novo in Los Angeles.
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