Tune-Yards have detailed their sixth studio LP. The duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner will share Better Dreaming on May 16 via 4AD.
Following 2021's Sketchy, the 11-song Better Dreaming is said to contain the "smoothest, funkiest, and most direct" music from Tune-Yards to date.
Writing material for the record, Garbus and Brenner found "a strong desire to move, to make music that would enter the ear and immediately loosen up the joints, get the whole body wiggling," a release explains.
Better Dreaming is previewed by "Limelight," which can be heard below alongside a video by Jayla Smith. Born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, Garbus and Brenner's three-year-old can be heard singing on the track.
"This one almost didn't make it onto the album because it felt trite," Garbus shares, "especially given multiple genocides across the globe and the particular impact on children (the kids are not 'alright'). But it kept coming back as people kept responding positively to it, in particular our own kid. Who am I to talk about getting free, about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer said, 'Nobody's free until everybody's free' and it feels vulnerable but important to see myself as part of that 'everybody.'"
Last year saw Tune-Yards celebrate 10 years of third album Nikki Nack.
Better Dreaming:
1. Heartbreak
2. Swarm
3. Never Look Back
4. Suspended
5. Limelight
6. Get Through
7. Better Dreaming
8. How Big Is the Rainbow
9. See You There
10. Perpetual Motion
11. Sanctuary