Sudan Archives has announced her third album: The BPM is out October 17 via Stones Throw. The Los Angeles–based musician’s follow-up to 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen includes recent single “Dead,” along with two more newly released tracks, “My Type” and “Yea Yea Yea.” Watch the music video for “My Type” and listen to “Yea Yea Yea” below.
Sudan Archives partially completed The BPM in Chicago and Detroit. On the album, she introduces a new persona called Gadget Girl. “I was never the girl in a band in high school,” she said in a statement, “I could only express myself for the first time when I got my first iPad and started making beats on it, and when I got my first electric violin. I’m all gadget-girl-ed-out now, but I’ve never felt so free as a human.”
Sudan Archives is going on a tour of Europe and the United Kingdom in support of The BPM. The shows take place in the autumn and follow North American stops, like her performance at TV on the Radio’s new mini-festival in Brooklyn, New York. See Sudan Archives’ tour dates below.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2022 interview “How Sudan Archives Exploded Her Sound to Make One of the Year’s Best Albums.”
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The BPM:
01 Dead
02 Come and Find You
03 Yea Yea Yea
04 Touch Me
05 A Bug’s Life
06 The Nature of Power
07 My Type
08 She’s Got Pain
09 David & Goliath
10 A Computer Love
11 The BPM
12 Ms. Pac Man
13 Los Cinci
14 Noire
15 Heaven Knows