Ravyn Lenae Announces Third Album 'Blue Island' for August Release

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Ravyn Lenae has announced her third studio album, *Blue Island*, set for release on August 7 via Atlantic Records. Pitchfork reported that the album follows her 2024 record *Bird's Eye*, which featured the breakout hit "Love Me Not," and that the announcement coincides with the upbeat single "Handle." Stereogum noted that *Blue Island* is executive produced by Grammy-winning artist Dahi.

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Ravyn Lenae has announced her third studio album, Blue Island, set for release on August 7 via Atlantic Records. It follows her 2024 album Bird's Eye, which featured the breakout hit "Love Me Not" that has surpassed a billion streams. The announcement comes with the release of an upbeat single titled "Handle," accompanied by a music video directed by Andre Muir with choreography by Akira Uchida. Lenae describes the album as a point of arrival, feeling settled in her identity and free from preconceived notions about Blackness or past expectations.

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'Blue Island' is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free of any of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past.

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Her third LP drops August 7 via Atlantic