Sudan Archives has been busy on the street since she launched her 2022 album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, however issues have in any other case been quiet—till now. The singer-songwriter, violinist, and multi-instrumentalist returns with “Dead,” her first new music in practically three years, in addition to an accompanying music video directed by Jonah Haber. Within the visible, Sudan Archives sings to a tropical fish in a tank, dances between flashing lamps, and is approached by a robotic arm. Watch it under.
Recorded throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit, “Useless” was written as an exploration of orchestral Black dance music and the components of ourselves which are extra human than machine, and vice versa. The video additional extrapolates on these themes.
After her most up-to-date album got here out, Sudan Archives made the rounds on late-night tv reveals to carry out tracks from it on air. As an example, she did “Egocentric Soul” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and “Homesick (Attractive & Boastful)” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Revisit the 2022 interview “How Sudan Archives Exploded Her Sound to Make One of the Year’s Best Albums.”
