Miguel has been warning us that CAOS is on the horizon for most of this year. On Tuesday (Sept. 2) he finally confirmed when the mayhem will come when the singer revealed that his fifth full-length studio album, CAOS, is due out on Oct. 23 from ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records.

The release, which will coincide with the singer’s 40th birthday, is a “personal and artistic rebirth,” according to a release announcing the project that was eight years in the making. “To rebuild, I had to destroy myself. That is the core confrontation of CAOS,” Miguel said in a statement. “Through my personal evolution, I learned that transformation is violent. CAOS is the sonic iteration of me bending that violence into something universally felt.”

Miguel has been teasing out glimpses of the long-awaited full-length follow-up to 2017’s Billboard 200 No. 9-charting War & Leisure LP on his socials all year, including in April when he posted a series of pics in which he is modeling a baseball hat with the album’s logo consumed by flames and what look like doctored billboards with the LP’s title alongside CAOS Cola soda bottles.

In late April came a mega-mix of actors, politicians and athletes saying “chaos,” followed by an appearance at the Roots Picnic in April in which he performed in front of a huge, burning CAOS logo and a mid-August post featuring a woman with the album’s title tattooed on the inside of her lip.

To celebrate the news, Miguel has posted the album’s title track on his own S1C.LA platform, where you can sample the three-minute bilingual song that opens with a monologue in Spanish backed by a chorus before the beat kicks in. The experimental track mixes psychedelic pop and flamenco guitar with yearning, falsetto vocals and Miguel’s signature alluring R&B vibe.

The album description promises “a fearless exploration of the emotions and experiences that have shaped Miguel’s life. Boldly genre-defying, the project captures the beauty and volatility of transformation — where destruction becomes creation, and pain evolves into growth.” The release also promised that in the upcoming weeks the singer will offer fans “unprecedented access” into the “personal and universal chaos that shaped the album — giving rare insight through music and visual storytelling” as it invites fans to confront, and harness, the chaos in their lives.

Earlier this year, BTS’ j-hope dropped his Miguel collab “Sweet Dreams.”

Check out the album cover and some teaser videos below.