Ravyn Lenae has announced a new album, Blue Island, her first since 2024’s Bird’s Eye and its billion-streams-and-counting breakout track “Love Me Not.” The LP is Lenae’s third full-length and arrives August 7 via Atlantic. Check out its new wave-y new single “Handle” below, along with an Andre Muir-directed music video that includes choreography by Akira Uchida.
“‘Blue Island’ is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free of
any of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past,” Lenae said in a statement about the record’s inception. “I think now it’s fun to challenge the idea of what R&B is supposed to sound like, what pop is supposed to sound like… and really say ‘fuck all of that’ and do my own thing.’”
In addition to the release of Blue Island, Lenae is set to play more than a dozen dates this summer on both sides of the Atlantic. All stops are also listed below.
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Ravyn Lenae 2026 Dates:
06-04 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
06-06 New York, NY – Governors Ball
08-13 Copenhagen, Denmark – Syd for Solen
08-14 Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West
08-15 Oslo, Norway – Oya Festival
08-20 St. Poelten, Austria – Frequency Festival
08-22 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
08-23 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop Festival
08-25 Lausanne, Switzerland – Headline
08-26 Paris, France – Rock en Seine
08-28 London, England – All Points East
08-29 Lisbon, Portugal – Kalorma
08-30 County Laois, Ireland – Electric Picnic
