André 3000 To Release Highly-Coveted Solo Album ‘New Blue Sun’ This Week
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André 3000 will finally give the fans what they have wanted from him after a storied, nearly 30-year career. The 48-year-old announced his first-ever solo album, New Blue Sun, will be coming out this week.
The OutKast member took to Instagram on Tuesday morning (Nov. 14) to make the announcement. The cover art features him holding a large flute, a direct reference to the type of music that will be found on New Blue Sun, coming Friday (Nov. 17). Per an interview with NPR published on Tuesday, the LP will not feature any raps, or vocals period, from 3 Stacks.
What fans will hear, as described by NPR, is “a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent” flute album. The Four Brothers actor has often been seen playing his flute throughout New York City or anywhere he is in the world, so it shouldn’t be too shocking that this is the direction he is going.
André 3000 spoke about the pressure from fans to put out a solo rap album and why the craft comes harder to him these days. “I’ve always kind of been analyzing it or figuring out how I wanted to approach it,” he told NPR. “So, in these times, it just comes harder for me to do it and I don’t know why. I mean I try it all the time. It’s not like I don’t try or it’s not like I have a lot of these songs just sitting — I have songs but it’s not like rap things that I really feel happy about sharing. And really, that’s the most important part. I have to feel happy about sharing it.”
New Blue Sun is an eight-track, 87-minute album with notably long track titles, such as “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” and “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild.”
It’ll be his first full-length release since 2006’s Idlewild alongside his OutKast comrade Big Boi. While many people label his portion of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below as his first solo album, mainly due to the belief that he would never put one out, this will serve as his true solo debut. This comes a little under five months after Killer Mike jokingly revealed that 3 Stacks had an album on the way, only to double back and say he was lying. Check out Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in the meantime.
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