Visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley has just announced his fifth album. It’s called Tonky and it is set for release on March 21 via Jagjaguwar.

In the meantime, Holley has shared the album’s lead single “Protest With Love” along with a music video. Watch/listen below:

“Protest With Love” is a collaboration with producer Jacknife Lee (bass, keys, synthesizers, drums, programming, recorder, percussion, and vocals) The Legendary Ingramettes (vocals), Kelly Pratt (horns and flutes), and Jordan Katz (horns).

Like Holley’s most recent record, Oh Me Oh My, Tonky enlists a wide array of featured artists, including harpist Mary Lattimore, clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid, sculptor Joe Mintor, rapper Open Mike Eagle, musician/saxophonist Alabaster DePlume, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, rapper billy woods, singer Jesca Hoop, and rapper/poet Saul Williams.

According to a statement from poet and The New Yorker critic Hanif Abdurraqib, the album’s name is based on a moniker Holley was given as a child when he lived in a honky tonk. Abdurraqib continues: “Lonnie Holley’s life of survival and endurance is one that required–and no doubt still requires–a kind of invention.”

Oh Me Oh My was ranked The Needle Drop’s 24th best album of 2023. Revisit the review of Oh Me Oh My and check out Tonky’s tracklist below.

Tonky:

01 Seeds
02 Life (featuring Mary Lattimore)
03 Protest With Love
04 The Burden (featuring Angel Bat Dawid)
05 The Same Stars (featuring Joe Minter and Open Mike Eagle)
06 We Was Kings In The Jungle, Slaves In The Field
07 Strength of A Song (featuring Alabaster de Plume)
08 What’s Going On (featuring Isaac Brock)
09 Fear the Machine
10 I Looked Over My Shoulder (featuring billy woods)
11 Did I Do Enough? (featuring Jesca Hoop)
12 That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music
13 Those Stars Are Still Shining (featuring Saul Williams)
14 A Change Is Gonna Come