This month, Kelis will release her first album since 2006’s Kelis Was Here.
Titled Flesh Tones, it marks a movement away from the Neptunes-driven sound that Kelis made her name with, and features collaborations with several big name dance producers, amongst them Boys Noize, Tocadisco and David Guetta, who produced recent single ‘Acapella’. Will.i.am also pops up, which is good. For him.
The Guardian are currently streaming five tracks from the album, which apparently also touches on industrial techno (no Surgeon appearance, alas) and is released on May 17 for UK/Worldwide, and July 6 for US and Canada.
Sleeve art and tracklist follow. You can watch the video for ‘Acapella’ after the tracklist.
1. Intro
2. 22nd Century/Segue 1
3. 4th of July (Fireworks)/Segue 2
4. Home/Segue 3
5. Acapella/Segue 4
6. Scream
7. Emancipate/Segue 5
8. Brave/Segue 6
9. Song For The Baby