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This Friday, Kelela<\/a> will finally release New Avatar<\/em><\/a>, her long-awaited third album. She\u2019s satiating her fans\u2019 appetites a few days early, though, with the new single \u201cThe Bridge\u201d featuring PinkPantheress<\/a>. Give the song a listen below.<\/p>\n New Avatar<\/em> deviates from the electronic R&B that Kelela is known for and, instead, pays homage to her early songwriting career in the Washington, D.C. music scene, mixing together shoegaze, grunge, and indie rock with her usual influences. \u201cThe Bridge\u201d follows previous singles \u201cIdea 1<\/a>,\u201d \u201cLinknb<\/a>,\u201d \u201cPoint Blank<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cOutta Time,\u201d and is one of several collaborations on the record, alongside guest features by A.K. Paul and Foushe\u00e9.<\/p>\n Kelela\u2019s previous studio album, Raven<\/em><\/a>, came out in 2023. That rave-inspired project got its own remix album<\/a> boasting new renditions by electronic artists like LSDXOXO, Tygapaw, and Shygirl. She also released the live album In the Blue Light<\/em><\/a> last year. Meanwhile, PinkPantheress rolled out both a studio album, Fancy That<\/em><\/a>, and its remix version, Fancy Some More?<\/em><\/a>, in 2025.<\/p>\n Read Kiana Mickles\u2019 Best New Track review<\/a> of \u201cIdea 1\u201d read about Fancy That<\/em> at No. 18 in The 50 Best Albums of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pitchfork.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Friday, Kelela will finally release New Avatar, her long-awaited third album. She\u2019s satiating her fans\u2019 appetites a few days early, though, with the new single \u201cThe Bridge\u201d featuring PinkPantheress. Give the song a listen below. New Avatar deviates from the electronic R&B that Kelela is known for and, instead, pays homage to her early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2491557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-2491556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kelela-and-PinkPantheress-Take-It-to-The-Bridge-on-New.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491556","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=2491556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491558,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491556\/revisions\/2491558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}