Following the July release of “Floating Parade” – Michael Kiwanuka’s first new music in 3 years – the London-born singer/songwriter has shared details of his long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Mercury Prize winning KIWANUKA.

Co-produced with Danger Mouse and SAULT mastermind Inflo, Small Changes will arrive on 15 November via Polydor Records following Kiwanuka’s US co-headline tour with Brittany Howard. Recorded between London and Los Angeles, it's Kiwanuka's first album since becoming a father twice over, and features contributions from Jimmy Jam of Jam & Lewis and bassist-to-the-stars Pino Palladino.

The album announcement coincides with the release of two-part single "Lowdown", with "part i" taking inspiration from Kiwanuka's love of '70s Afro-rock artists like Nigeria's Ofege and Zambian group Amanaz, who he says sound "almost like a '70s African take on The Velvet Underground," adding that the song is intended to be a "sort of throwback to that time in your life when you’re essentially a slacker in retreat from the world’s expectations.” With the string-soaked instrumental "Lowdown (part ii)", Kiwanuka leans back into the extended guitar solos that he does so well.

Watch the BLACKWALL-directed video for "Lowdown (parts i and ii)" below:

Small Changes tracklist:

1. Floating Parade
2. Small Changes
3. One & Only
4. Rebel Soul
5. Lowdown (part i)
6. Lowdown (part ii)
7. Follow Your Dreams
8. Live For Your Love
9. Stay By My Side
10. The Rest Of Me
11. Four Long Years

Kiwanuka will play a couple of headline dates in Canada later this month, and is on the bill for the DC weekend of All Things Go Festival. Full list of dates, including the tour with Brittany Howard, below:

09/24 Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
09/26 Montréal, QC @ MTELUS
09/28 Columbia, MD @ All Things Go Festival

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