Please note new street date: May 22. "BRAT" is the masterful LP from beloved Chicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ. It follows his critically acclaimed LP "DROOL" (2017), an album that brought him to Pitchfork Fest and earned him Best Music of the Year recognition from NPR, Fader, Bandcamp, and more. On his follow-up "BRAT", NNAMDÏ starkly explores the psychological turmoil between wanting and needing in a manner that is both intensely personal and highly relatable. Its virtuosic fusion of Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop, Electronics, Gospel, and West African influences firmly establishes him in a genre-less class of his own.
Please note new street date: May 22. "BRAT" is the masterful LP from beloved Chicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ. It follows his critically acclaimed LP "DROOL" (2017), an album that brought him to Pitchfork Fest and earned him Best Music of the Year recognition from NPR, Fader, Bandcamp, and more. On his follow-up "BRAT", NNAMDÏ starkly explores the psychological turmoil between wanting and needing in a manner that is both intensely personal and highly relatable. Its virtuosic fusion of Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop, Electronics, Gospel, and West African influences firmly establishes him in a genre-less class of his own.
Please note new street date: May 22. Limited clear with pink and blue vinyl splatter vinyl edition, exclusively available to independent record shops. "BRAT" is the masterful LP from beloved Chicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ. It follows his critically acclaimed LP "DROOL" (2017), an album that brought him to Pitchfork Fest and earned him Best Music of the Year recognition from NPR, Fader, Bandcamp, and more. On his follow-up "BRAT", NNAMDÏ starkly explores the psychological turmoil between wanting and needing in a manner that is both intensely personal and highly relatable. Its virtuosic fusion of Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop, Electronics, Gospel, and West African influences firmly establishes him in a genre-less class of his own.
October 7 street date. As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDÏ's life is go/go/go, do/do/do, produce/produce/produce, with precious little time to stop. "Please Have a Seat" finds NNAMDÏ writing through calmer moments as he's been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it's the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, "Please Have a Seat" is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDÏ is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make "Please Have a Seat" warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and "Please Have a Seat" isn't a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality.
October 7 street date. As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDÏ's life is go/go/go, do/do/do, produce/produce/produce, with precious little time to stop. "Please Have a Seat" finds NNAMDÏ writing through calmer moments as he's been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it's the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, "Please Have a Seat" is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDÏ is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make "Please Have a Seat" warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and "Please Have a Seat" isn't a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality.
October 7 street date. As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDÏ's life is go/go/go, do/do/do, produce/produce/produce, with precious little time to stop. "Please Have a Seat" finds NNAMDÏ writing through calmer moments as he's been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it's the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, "Please Have a Seat" is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDÏ is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make "Please Have a Seat" warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and "Please Have a Seat" isn't a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality.
October 7 street date. As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDÏ's life is go/go/go, do/do/do, produce/produce/produce, with precious little time to stop. "Please Have a Seat" finds NNAMDÏ writing through calmer moments as he's been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it's the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, "Please Have a Seat" is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDÏ is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make "Please Have a Seat" warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and "Please Have a Seat" isn't a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality.
March 10 street date. Written and recorded in three days during the tumultuous summer of 2020, the "Black Plight" EP is Chicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ's response to the police murder of George Floyd and the subsequent ignition of protests and demands for racial justice that swept the globe. The album was originally released as a Digital Only Bandcamp exclusive, and went on to become the Best Selling Album on Bandcamp Friday (6/5/20) raising over $10,000.00 for racial justice organizations in 24 hours. The album is now available on vinyl for the first time.
March 10 street date. Pop Matters said that "Nnamdï's sounds are a testament to the continual melting away of genre distinctions in the current era of (particularly Black) music". His extensive catalogue includes covers significant ground in hip-hop, pop, rock, punk, orchestral, and experimental music. In 2021, NNAMDÏ expanded his freewheeling sonic explorations for an entrée into the world of pop-infused dance and electronica with the release of the "Are You Happy" EP on November 12, 2021. Notably, "Are You Happy" is the only NNAMDÏ project to date that he did not produce, perform, and record by himself. Conor Mackey, NNAMDÏ's longtime bandmate in the jazz-fusion quintet Monobody. produced "Are You Happy" in its entirety, drawing on his extensive vocabulary of electronic music and masterful production chops to create the dense, finely detailed compositions at the core of the project. The songs on "Are You Happy" integrate IDM, drum and bass, dub, and a kitchen-sink of electronic genres resulting in one of the freshest and most singularly unique projects in NNAMDÏ's extensive and shape-shifting catalogue.
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