Santigold Talks New Album Details

Santigold (formerly known as Santogold) hasn’t wasted anytime since her 2008 self-titled debut. The singer recently told Billboard that she is tweaking the “last-minute details” of her long-awaited sophomore album and will release the full-length this fall on Downtown/Atlantic Records.

According to Santigold, the recording process put the artist on the road long before the LP’s accompanying tour, taking in place in Los Angeles, Jamaica and New York. The album also boasts some heavy-hitting collaborators, including the guitarist from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Major Lazer’s producer.

“I wanted it to feel dynamic and powerful,” she says, “I still have the songs that sound very electronic and clubby, but I have a couple ballads on this one — my own type of ballads, where they just sound big, like the way some old Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel songs were…on this one song, we did a whole section that has a bottle used as the percussion, so there’s layers upon layers of Greg Kurstin playing a bottle and literally filling it with different layers of water, and stacking each note. Mixed with a marimba and taiko drums!”

The singer says that she hopes to release a single from the record this summer.

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