Vince Staples has announced his eighth studio album, Dark Times, will be out May 24 through Def Jam Recordings. A new era in the artist’s canon, the album’s goal is to refine elements that have been present in Staples’ catalog for the last decade.
In conjunction with the album announcement, Staples released the first single, “Shame on the Devil,” which features the artist rapping over warm spectral beat and ruminating on how anointed his life is now, in spite of bouts of loneliness and fallouts with friends. While talking about his latest ditty, Staples says: “It’s me mastering some things I’ve tried before that I wasn’t great at in the beginning. It’s a testament to musical growth, song structure and all the good stuff.”
Dark Times follows Staples’s 2022 critically acclaimed album Ramona Park Broke My Heart, which was hailed as one of the best albums of the year by Clash, Complex, The Fader, Rolling Stone, and Vulture among others.
Dark Times Track List
- Close Your Eyes and Swing
- Black & Blue
- Government Cheese
- Children’s Song
- Shame On the Devil
- Étouffée
- Liars
- Justin
- “Radio”
- Nothing Matters
- Little Homies
- Freeman
- Why Won’t the Sun Come Out?
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