tUnE-yArDs release new album, I can feel you creep into my private life: Stream

Ben Kaye

January 19, 2018 | 12:08am ET

tUnE-yArDs today return with their latest album, I can feel you creep into my private life. The follow-up to 2014’s Nikki Nack is now available to stream below. You can pick up the vinyl here.

I can feel… is tUnE-yArDs’ official coming out party as a duo. Whereas past works have solely been credited to mastermind Merrill Garbus, this new effort features longtime collaborator Nate Brenner stepping into a full-time role. Recording took place at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone Oakland studio, where the band worked with mixer Mikaelin “Blue” Bluespruce (Kendrick Lamar, Solange).

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Garbus was heavily influenced by working at her C.L.A.W. (Collaborative Legions of Artful Womxn) radio program and taking part in bi-weekly, six-month workshop on being white in today’s society. Asked by The New York Times what a white artist has to add to the conversation about race when people like Kendrick Lamar and Solange are putting out albums, Garbus answered,

“That’s the question, isn’t it? I constantly question, ‘Do I deserve to be here?’ Why am I talking to you, for instance? This is a privileged place to be. I wish I could say, ‘I’ve sat and meditated for so many hours on my whiteness that I have something to say.’ But I have no idea! And I think it’s OK not to know that. That being said, there is plenty that white people can do… Like: ‘Talk to other white people.'”