McKinley Dixon has announced his fifth album, Magic, Alive!, which is due for release on June 6 via City Slang. The follow-up to 2023’s Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? is led by the single ‘Sugar Water’, which features the producer, rapper, and songwriter Quelle Chris as well as indie folk musician Anjimile. Check it out below and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“I guess if it don’t kill you, make you harder/ Bring him back just for my heart?/ Shit, it seem an easy barter,” Dixon raps on the vibrant and compelling ‘Sugar Water’. The track “is a discussion on how to make fleeting moments last forever, and how to carry those not here with you through time and space,” he explained. “It raises the question ‘what’s the price to pay for an eternal life lived through others memories?’”
Dixon returned to his native Richmond, Virginia in July 2024 to make the record, which features contributions from the likes of Shamir, Pink Siifu, and Teller Bank$. “It’s like a celebration when I make a record back in Richmond,” Dixon remarked. “Everybody has grown, but now here we are together again.”
Magic, Alive! Cover Artwork:
Magic, Alive! Tracklist:
1. Watch My Hands
2. Sugar Water [feat. Quelle Chris & Anjimile]
3. A Crooked Stick [feat. Ghais Guevara & Alfred.]
4. Recitatif [feat. Teller Bank$]
5. Run, Run, Run Part II
6. We’re Outside, Rejoice!
7. All The Loved Ones (What Would We Do???) [feat. ICECOLDBISHOP & Pink Siifu]
8. F.F.O.L. [feat. Teller Bank$]
9. Listen Gentle
10. Magic, Alive!
11. Could’ve Been Different [feat. Blu & Shamir]
