KeiyaA, the Chicago-born, New York–based soul musician, singer-songwriter, and producer, has announced a new album. Her sophomore LP is titled Hooke’s Law and comes out October 31 via XL. Featured the record is the new song “Take It,” and its moody, low-lit music video is co-directed by Caity Arthur and KeiyaA. Watch it below.
“An album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care. It’s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It’s more of a cycle, a spiral—it’s Hooke’s law,” said KeiyaA. “With this work, I aim to interrogate and embrace anger and conflict, disappointment and dissatisfaction, about not being docile and about rejecting mammyism and traditional expectations of fat black brown and dark skinned women in our communities. I speak about desire + longing, about examining maladaptive tendencies, conflict avoidance – the eternal relationship with the self.”
Hooke’s Law follows KeiyaA’s breakout debut album, 2020’s Forever, Ya Girl, her 2022 single “Camille’s Daughter,” and her full-length stage production, Milk Thot, that ran in New York. The new LP was written, sung, and produced by KeiyaA herself over the past five years, in addition to her playing every instrument on the songs. Also included on the lengthy tracklist is the single “Stupid Prizes.”
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Hooke’s Law:
01 Waltz d’Hethert
02 I H8 U
03 Stupid Prizes
04 Take It
05 Be Quiet!!!
06 Think About It / What U Think?
07 K.I.S.S.
08 Make Good
09 This Time [ft. Rahrah Gabor]
10 Lateeee
11 Get Close 2 Me
12 Fire Sign Oath
13 Motions
14 Motions (Reprise)
15 Break It
16 Thirsty
17 Devotions
18 Nobody Show
19 Until We Meet Again
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