NNAMDÏ DROPS FINAL SINGLE FROM UPCOMING SECRETLY CANADIAN DEBUT

Photo Credit: Dennis Elliott

PLEASE HAVE A SEAT AVAILABLE OCTOBER 7TH

“Nnamdï’s sounds are a testament to the continual melting away of genre distinctions in the current era of (particularly Black) music.” -POP MATTERS

“The shapeshifting Chicago musical artist Nnamdi Ogbonnaya is making the big leap… strains of ambient pop, trap, soul, choral music, and more in service of something that paradoxically feels both chilled-out and fired-up.” -STEREOGUM

“Like Please Have a Seat’s first offering, the new track pairs NNAMDÏ’s ever-impressive wordplay with a squishy, soulful beat, zeroing in on the tragicomic territory he knows so well.” -FADER

NNAMDÏ, the multi-instrumentalist songwriter, has a new album on the way, Please Have A Seat, out October 7th via Secretly Canadian and his own label, Sooper Records. Here is the final single from it, “Dedication,” a stunning track that unexpectedly veers from bursts of electronic noise to what’s easily his most immediate pop hook yet. For the song, Nnamdi enlisted frequent collaborators Stephan Jurgovan of Nervous Passenger, Sen Morimoto, KAINA, and Brok Mende to provide additional vocals. The song is accompanied by a video in which NNAMDÏ is sweating it out on an exercise bike as a director screams at him and ends with a Slyfy McCartney featured “Sooper Elite Furniture” skit from the album. NNAMDÏ notes: I wrote this deep into the 2020 pandemic as self-motivation to get me out of the crippling funk, just to get me to wanna do anything. I would play it to go on a run/exercise before I worked on music and before I responded to people’s phone calls. It was really just me hyping myself up to do something to get through the slump and make it through the weeks.

Watch the previously released video for “Anti”

Watch the previously released video for “I Don’t Wanna Be Famous”

The result of a much-needed pause, which lead to a creative and emotional reset, Please Have A Seat is NNAMDÏ’s most immediate and accessible effort to date. It stretches the limits of his pop songwriting and serves as a request to sit down, be present, and take in a moment. Each of the album’s 14 songs, which NNAMDÏ wrote, produced, and performed entirely himself, are relentlessly replayable, careening into unexpected and disorienting places. Shoved up against these potent doses of pop bliss are math-rock freakouts, arena-rock lead guitars, breakneck-paced rap flows, and feverish synth arrangements. It’s a visionary statement and another leap from Chicago’s hardest-working musician. Tickets for his upcoming tour in support of the album are available now. Click HERE for more details and see the complete dates below.

Please Have A Seat album pre-order:

https://nnamdi.secretlyca.co/please-have-a-seat

Please Have A Seat Track Listing

Ready To Run

Armoire

Dibs

Touchdown

Grounded

I Don’t Wanna Be Famous

ANXIOUS EATER

Anti

Dedication

Smart Ass

Benched

Careful

Lifted

Some Days

TOUR DATES:

Tue-Oct-18 Davenport, IA The Raccoon Motel

Wed-Oct-19 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry

Thu-Oct-20 Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club

Sat-Oct-22 Chicago, IL Metro

Mon-Oct-24 Cleveland, OH Mahall’s

Tue-Oct-25 Toronto, ON The Garrison

Wed-Oct-26 Montreal, QC Diving Bell Social Club

Thu-Oct-27 Johnson, VT Northern Vermont University

Fri-Oct-28 Boston, MA Crystal Ballroom

Sat-Oct-29 Brooklyn, NY Baby’s All Right

Tue-Nov-01 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA

Wed-Nov-02 Washington, DC Comet Ping Pong

Thu-Nov-03 Durham, NC Pinhook

Fri-Nov-04 Atlanta, GA 529

Sat-Nov-05 Nashville, TN DRKMTTR

Fri-Nov-11 London, UK Pitchfork London

Mon-Nov-14 Berlin, Germany Marie-Antoinette

Wed-Nov-16 Paris, France Pitchfork Paris

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