Navy Blue has announced a new album, The Sword & the Soaring. The Los Angeles rapper-producer snagged a Child Actor beat for lead single “Orchards”; watch Maxi Hachem’s meditative video below. The Memoirs in Armour follow-up arrives November 11 via Freedom Sounds.
“Child Actor has been a guiding light and force for me and my creative process,” Navy Blue said in a press release. “When he shared the beat, it was titled ‘Orchard,’ just as ‘Low Threshold’ was. The titles of his beats are always spot on and seem to set the stage. This time with the warm glow of a winter sun piercing through the clouds. I visualized an apple orchard melting into a singular vanishing point, and began to write. Thousands of individual trees bearing fruit, connected through soil and roots, with an expansiveness that resembles the infinite source.”
The Sword & the Soaring:
01 The Bloodletter
02 Orchards
03 God’s Kingdom
04 Sunlight of the Spirit
05 Guardadas
06 My Heartbeat
07 Tale of Truth
08 Fight On
09 Kindred Spirit
10 If Only…
11 Illusions
12 24 Gospel [ft. Earl Sweatshirt]
13 Here & Now
14 Soul Investments
15 Sharing Life
16 The Phoenix
