Six-time Grammy nominee Yola has been a busy woman in the three years since we last heard new music from her. The Bristol-born artist made her Hollywood acting debut as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS, and is currently smashing it on Broadway playing the role of Persephone in Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin's Hadestown musical. She's also served as a member of the Leadership Council of The Recording Academy's Black Music Collective, alongside artists like H.E.R., Mickey Guyton, and Ledisi, and recently signed to NYC-based indie label S-Curve Records.

Out 15 November, new EP My Way reintroduces Yola as a contemporary soul artist influenced by the likes of "Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson, Sade, Prince, Minnie Riperton, and various luminaries of rare groove and progressive RnB."

Says Yola in a press release:

"I’ve been purposefully hinting about this direction for years. From covering Soul II Soul for Apple Music, to my covers on tour and reworkings of my songs, the broad church of soul music through the ages has always been the narrative. I’ve covered Yarborough and Peoples’ 'Don’t Stop The Music" as a throwback nod to my time in the west London “Broken Beat” scene with collective Bugz In The Attic (we used to cover that song)."

Lead track "Future Enemies", out now, is a song about protecting your peace from would-be disruptors. “It’s a luxury to not have an endless supply of negative memories about someone cause you never made them," says Yola, adding:

"I choose to save my time for situations, spaces and people that have no ticking timer of inevitable doom, because they don’t see me or centre a reality that does not serve me or my wellbeing. Of course when you’re a woman, culturally black (as well as physically black), dark skinned (and feminine in energy), plus size (and wilfully main character in energy), from a whole different continent and living in the west – let’s say you’re going to have to be both vigilant and choosy in life, in love in work. Oh and if you also want to be real, girl!!”

Watch the Edoardo Ranaboldo-directed video for "Future Enemies" below: