Kele Okereke is ahead of his time — 23 years, to be exact. The Bloc Party frontman’s new album 2042 will arrive Nov. 8, according to a press release. I’ve been a Bloc Party fan since Silent Alarm came out in 2005; I saw them at SXSW that year and actually bumped into Okereke out and about, watching some other band whose name escapes me. I’ve also had the pleasure of interviewing Kele a couple of times, and he’s always been good-humoured and forthright. All of which is a long way of saying I’m looking forward to 2042. If you are too, can get a taste of what lies ahead with the single and video Jungle Bunny above. Here’s what he had to say about the song in that press release: “There is a history of black entertainers feeling that after they have achieved a certain level of success that they are above discussions of race but that idea is a delusion. As a person of colour living in the western world, it does not matter how much wealth one accumulates, race will follow you wherever you go. With Jungle Bunny I wanted explore this idea: In a time of such rampant division and public racism, what is the responsibility of the black entertainer?”
As always, Okereke’s album is just one of many announced over the past day or two. Scroll down to scope the long list of new additions — including reissues from Mötley Crüe and R.E.M., who shared a new mix of What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? from their Monster reissue below — and then bounce over to the Upcoming Releases page for the entire fall slate.
September 13
Hailey Whitters | The Days
September 20
Alaskan Tapes | Views From Sixteen Stories
Tim Carman & The Street 45s | Tim Carman & The Street 45s
Monster Rally | Adventures on the Floating Island
September 27
Academy Killer | Lost in Make Believe EP
Harlequin Gold | Baby Blue EP
M:40 | Arvsynd
J. Pavone String Ensemble | Brick and Mortar
30,000 Monkies | Are Forever
MC Yallah X Debmaster | Kubali
October 4
Deaf Club | Contemporary Sickness EP
Remo Drive | Natural, Everyday Extended Play
October 11
Bonnie Baxter | Axis
Boy Harsher | Country Girl Uncut
Jaimie Branch | Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
Cycles of the Damned | A Time to Survive
Stone Broken | All in Time
October 18
John Carpenter | Halloween: Expanded Edition Score
Patrick Watson | Wave
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October 25
William Doyle | Your Wilderness Revisited
Electric Jaguar Baby | Electric Jaguar Baby
Fink | Blood Innocent
Jackson 5 | Greatest Hits Quad Mix Vinyl
Pita | Get On
November 1
Marillion | Afraid of Sunlight Deluxe Edition
Output 1:1:1 | Retroactive Rock Record EP
R.E.M. | Monster 25th Anniversary
Uncle Walt’s Band | An American in Texas Reissue
November 8
The Dark Element | Songs the Night Sings
Kele Okereke | 2042
Rrose | Hymn to Moisture
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith | Mummer Love
Suss | High Line
Various Artists | Motown in Mono Vinyl Series
Wiley | Full Circle
November 15
Oliver Spalding | Novemberism
November 22
Lisa Nordström | Volume
November 29
Mötley Crüe | Dr. Feelgood 30th Anniversary Edition
Snake on the Beach | Shiosai
January 17
Bombay Bicycle Club | Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
