Noname To Release New Album 'Sundial' This Summer
Noname has announced that her highly-anticipated album, Sundial, will be released in July 2023. The Chicago rapper made the announcement in an Instagram post which is currently the only one on her page where she has nearly half a million followers. The brief note shared the title and release date of the album along with the message, "Thank you for everything" with a sun emoji.
Rolling Stone notes that the announcement came just a week before her first appearance at Coachella this Sunday, April 16. She is also scheduled to play the second weekend as well.
The new album is the follow-up to 2018’s Room 25. She also released “Song 31,” “Song 32,” “Häagen Dazs” (a collab with Saba and Smino, which they released as the trio group Ghetto Sage). The rapper has also become well-known for the celebrated online book club that she launched in 2019.
In 2021, she talked to Rolling Stone about the book clubs, which had expanded into racial justice outreach following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May of 2020. The book clubs took up a great amount of her time and energy--contributing to one album being shelved. “I’m excited about creating and making art, but it’s coming from a different place,” she said at the time.“The more I fed into music, the less I cared about poetry,” she added. “Now it’s sort of the same thing, where the more I’m feeding into political education and organizing and the mutual-aid work that we’re doing and just this … whatever this is, I’m starting to be a little less interested in making music.”
But, it looks like the energy is back and Noname fans are excited with hundreds of comments on her most recent post congratulating her on the pending release.