Jon Batiste release new album World Music Radio

After dominating the Grammy Awards with his last album We Are, Jon Batiste has announced the highly anticipated followup called World Music Radio.

It features 20 songs (plus a bonus track) and includes guest appearances by Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, Kenny G and more.

“I created this album with a feeling of liberation in my life and a renewed sense of exploration of my personhood, my craft and of the world around me unlike anything I had ever felt before,” Batiste said in a statement.

Jon Batiste has announced his new album ‘World Music Radio’, which will feature a host of musical guest stars including Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, NewJeans and more – pre-order/pre-save here.

The US musician’s new album – the follow-up to 2021’s Grammy Award-winning ‘We Are’ – is out August 18, and will also feature Kenny G, Leigh-Anne, Native Soul and more across the 20-song tracklist.

Lana Del Rey has always had her foot on the cultural pulse, embracing 1950s nostalgia and the nihilism of Russian poets, much to the delight of sad girls everywhere since Born To Die. The mood of every album dictates a new aesthetic, so expertly honed that it feels knowingly cultivated, but so effortlessly carried off it still feels relevant. But Del Rey’s affinity for old-school Americana, fevered patriotism, and the American dream endure through every moment of self-reinvention.

On Born To Die, it was more opaque – in the album’s visuals, she was draped in the American flag and practically dripping in red, white, and blue. Channelling a tortured Marilyn Monroe, Del Rey’s vocals were dubbed baroque-pop, laced with a yearning for the old guard, repressed American sensibilities, and adventure. Her love interests are likened to James Dean, gangsters and kings of oil empires. She aligns herself with these men at great personal cost, often in the pursuit of love, but more often than not, money and diamonds.

Jim is a mythic man who has long haunted Del Rey’s discography as a stand-in for JFK, abusive lovers, and the Lizard King himself. But his return on “A&W” wasn’t just a call back to Ultraviolence; it was a cathartic end to her preoccupation with emotional damage and older men providing for her. It’s a more aggressive commitment to the personal freedom flirted with on ‘Lust For Life’, and Del Rey’s most frank account of the death of the American dream, all of which she delivers in a world which feels every bit as Budweiser-soaked as her early work.

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