Rosalía has confirmed her new album ‘LUX’ will be released next month, the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Motomami’.
The Catalan art pop singer has been teasing an announcement in recent days, with billboards popping up in New York’s Times Square and elsewhere, and Rosalía herself sharing a video of herself listening to a clip of rich, orchestral music.
On Monday night (October 20), she confirmed the news, sharing the album art on Instagram and writing, “Habemus Album”. Her fourth studio record will be released on November 7 via Columbia Records, and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
No further details of the album have yet been released, but you can check out the artwork for ‘LUX’ here, as well as the Times Square billboard:
In August, the singer teased that her next album would not sound like ‘Motomami’ “at all”. She told ELLE: “The rhythm [of the music industry] is so fast. And the sacrifice, the price to pay, is so high. The driving force that leads you to continue making music, to continue creating, has to come from a place of purity.
“Motives like money, pleasure, power… I don’t feel that they are fertile. Nothing will come out of there that I’m really interested in. Those are subjects that don’t inspire me.”
It follows previous comments about her fourth album, with the Spanish singer saying: “It’s been a process. I’ve changed a lot, but at the same time, I’m still wrapping my head around the same things. It’s like I still have the same questions and the same desire to answer them. I still have the same love for the past and the same curiosity for the future.”
NME gave ‘Motomami’ five stars: “Rosalía isn’t so much carving out her own lane as building her own ultra-modern, super-bendy sonic motorway. It’s one you’ll want to hurtle down again and again.”
In the years since, the singer has released multiple collaborative tracks, including ‘New Woman’ with BLACKPINK‘s Lisa, her song with Björk called ‘Oral’, and last September’s ‘Omega’ featuring Ralphie Choo.
In July, she responded to a fashion designer who refused to work with her due to her lack of public support for Palestine. She argued that the pressure for change should be pointed “upwards” towards “those who make decisions and have the power to act” and not “horizontally between us”.
She’s also set to star on the upcoming season three of HBO’s Euphoria, marking her first foray into acting. The show is set to return next spring.
