Banks releases sophomore album III: Stream

Banks has launched her sophomore album, III. Stream the 13-track effort under through Apple Music and Spotify.

III follows the alt-R&B singer’s 2016 debut full-length, The Altar. After dropping that file, Banks launched into a “self-imposed interval of quiet and reflection,” permitting her to deal with self-acceptance and “deep love.” There, she was in a position to transfer past the naivety of her youthful romanticism to find the ability of duality.

As she defined to TIME,

“Everyone has so many various layers to them. Normally one thing I’ve had a tough time digesting is that issues usually are not simply black and white, and life is messy. I write concerning the messiness. Messiness will be thrilling, however it may be painful. It doesn’t matter what I am going by means of, I at all times need to have the hope that I affiliate with youth and children—that wide-eyed naivete that you’ve got while you’re little earlier than you acknowledge something darkish. I feel that’s what I meant by duality—having all of the elements to who you’re in a single physique of labor.”

Banks previewed her newest file with singles together with “Gimme”, “Contaminated”, and the Francis and the Lights-assisted “Look What You’re Doing to Me”. Stream the whole lot of III under.

You can too catch Banks performing her new materials stay on her forthcoming “III Tour”. Discover tickets right here.

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