{"id":2403724,"date":"2026-05-05T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2403724"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:38:10","slug":"kelela-shares-linknb-from-new-album-new-avatar-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kelela-shares-linknb-from-new-album-new-avatar-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelela Shares &#8220;linknb&#8221; From New Album &#8216;new avatar&#8217;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pop futurist Kelela made her grand return last month with &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2495190\/kelela-idea-1\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">idea 1<\/a>.&#8221; The song, it turns out, is the opening track and lead single from a new Kelela album dropping this summer, her first since 2023&#8217;s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2212446\/kelela-raven\/reviews\/album-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Raven<\/a><\/em>. Titled <em>new avatar<\/em>, it boasts guest appearances from PinkPantheress, Foushe\u00e9, and A. K. Paul. It also features &#8220;linknb,&#8221; a new single out today.<\/p>\n<p>Like &#8220;idea 1,&#8221; &#8220;linknb&#8221; is produced by Oscar Scheller, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/1671876\/oscar-open-up-stereogum-premiere\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longtime Stereogum favorite<\/a> who has been ascendant lately thanks to his work with PinkPantheress. The track is built around a busy Mk.gee-like guitar figure, and it comes with a video by Mischa Notcutt. &#8220;It&#8217;s not hard to be brave\/ Easier to give too much away,&#8221; Kelela sings. &#8220;All I know is that I paved the way, underpaid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kelela - linknb (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrjRQyQFGh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TRACKLIST:<br \/>01 &#8220;idea 1&#8221;<br \/>02 &#8220;point blank&#8221;<br \/>03 &#8220;goin down&#8221;<br \/>04 &#8220;outta time&#8221; (feat. A. K. Paul)<br \/>05 &#8220;against me&#8221;<br \/>06 &#8220;crystalize&#8221;<br \/>07 &#8220;retaliation lullaby&#8221;<br \/>08 &#8220;linknb&#8221;<br \/>09 &#8220;don\u2019t piss me off&#8221;<br \/>10 &#8220;new life forms&#8221; (feat. Foushe\u00e9)<br \/>11 &#8220;the bridge&#8221; (feat. PinkPantheress)<br \/>12 &#8220;if we meet again&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>new avatar<\/em> is out 7\/10 via Warp. Pre-order it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kelela.bandcamp.com\/album\/new-avatar-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Neva Wireko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop futurist Kelela made her grand return last month with &#8220;idea 1.&#8221; The song, it turns out, is the opening track and lead single from a new Kelela album dropping this summer, her first since 2023&#8217;s Raven. Titled new avatar, it boasts guest appearances from PinkPantheress, Foushe\u00e9, and A. K. Paul. It also features &#8220;linknb,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2403725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kelela-Shares-linknb-From-New-Album-new-avatar-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403726,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403724\/revisions\/2403726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}