{"id":41459,"date":"2019-09-18T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/kele-okereke-announces-new-album-2042\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:34:19","slug":"kele-okereke-announces-new-album-2042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kele-okereke-announces-new-album-2042\/","title":{"rendered":"Kele Okereke announces new album, 2042"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29343 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album.jpg\" alt=\"Kele block party new album\" width=\"790\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album.jpg 790w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album-759x380.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album-661x331.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album-465x233.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kele-block-party-new-album-375x188.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Bloc party fronteman\u2019s new solo album is out this fall<\/h4>\n<p>Kele\u00a0has released a visceral first\u00a0single, \u201cJungle Bunny,\u201d ahead of his new album\u00a0<em>2042<\/em>, which will drop november 8th via his own KOLA Records.\u00a02042 is Kele\u2019s fourth solo record and, following 2017\u2019s largely acoustic Fatherland (released under his full name and featuring a duet with Olly Alexander from Years and Years), marks something of a return to the adrenalised electronics of his previous two solo records, Trick (2014) and The Boxer (2010), whilst broadening the sonic palette by bringing in elements of his work with Bloc Party and a litany of other influences and ideas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ts_ruZiz0w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Kele says, \u201cThere is a history of black entertainers feeling that after they have achieved a certain level of success that they are above discussions of race but that idea is a delusion. As a person of colour living in the western world, it does not matter how much wealth one accumulates, race will follow you wherever you go. With Jungle Bunny\u00a0I wanted explore this idea: In a time of such rampant division and public racism, what is the responsibility of the black entertainer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>2042\u00a0<\/em>is set to be release November 8th via Kele\u2019s label, KOLA. Pre-order it <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/kele.bandcamp.com\/album\/2042?fbclid=IwAR1BAhZy4DjW8TyV6VjOj-bLjmRvHbzbL8ZpoKuJLrvFvLZnmaVRr9LeoNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29364\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35.jpg\" alt=\"Kele 2042 album cover\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-35-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloc party fronteman\u2019s new solo album is out this fall Kele\u00a0has released a visceral first\u00a0single, \u201cJungle Bunny,\u201d ahead of his new album\u00a02042, which will drop november 8th via his own KOLA Records.\u00a02042 is Kele\u2019s fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5823],"location":[8230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}