Ravyn Lenae has announced a new album called Blue Island. The follow-up to 2024’s Bird’s Eye is due for release on August 7 via Atlantic. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Handle’, which is accompanied by an Andre Muir-directed music video featuring choreography by Akira Uchida. Check it out below.
“‘Blue Island’ is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free of any of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past,” Lenae explained in a press release. “I think now it’s fun to challenge the idea of what R&B is supposed to sound like, what pop is supposed to sound like… and really say ‘fuck all of that’ and do my own thing.’”
