Wie bereits berichtet, werden The Roots am 6 Dezember ihr nunmehr elftes Studio-Album veröffentlichen, welches den Titel UNDUN tragen wird. Gestern wurde die Tracklist dazu bekanntgegeben, die sich folgendermaßen liest:
- Sleep
- Make My
- One Time
- Kool On
- The Jump
- Stomp
- Lighthouse
- I Remember
- Tip The Scale
- Redford
Zum Album-Release hatte Drummer Questlove noch Folgendes mitzuteilen:
?At this point in our career we?d like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality. We?ve been intentionally making our albums shorter in length so that they can be experienced as a continuous work. The music is band-oriented with an eye on the moody cinematic. As a DJ, I am the King of playlists, but I don?t want our albums to feel like a playlist or a mixtape for that matter. We want to tell stories that work within the album format and we want the stories to be nuanced and useful to people. Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn?t born criminal. He?s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner like Tupac?s character Bishop in Juice? he?s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment? At the end of the day? isn?t that what we all do??
Kurz nach Veröffentlichung der Tracklist stellte man zusätzlich noch die erste Single des Albums, samt Artwork, ins Netz. Der Track heißt „Make My„, featuret Def Jam Records– Kollege Big K.R.I.T. und ist ab dem 1. November auf Itunes erhältlich.
