Ravyn Lenae Reveals New Album Blue Island
Her third LP drops August 7 via Atlantic
Ravyn Lenae has announced a new album, Blue Island, her first since 2024’s Bird’s Eye and its billion-streams-and-counting breakout track “Love Me Not.” The LP is Lenae’s third full-length and arrives August 7 via Atlantic. Check out its new wave-y new single “Handle” below, along with an Andre Muir-directed music video that includes choreography by Akira Uchida.
“‘Blue Island’ is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free ofany of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past,” Lenae said in a statement about the record’s inception. “I think now it’s fun to challenge the idea of what R&B is supposed to sound like, what pop is supposed to sound like… and really say ‘fuck all of that’ and do my own thing.’”
In addition to the release of Blue Island, Lenae is set to play more than a dozen dates this summer on both sides of the Atlantic. All stops are also listed below.
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Ravyn Lenae 2026 Dates:06-04 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound06-06 New York, NY – Governors Ball08-13 Copenhagen, Denmark – Syd for Solen08-14 Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West08-15 Oslo, Norway – Oya Festival08-20 St. Poelten, Austria – Frequency Festival08-22 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival08-23 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop Festival08-25 Lausanne, Switzerland – Headline08-26 Paris, France – Rock en Seine08-28 London, England – All Points East08-29 Lisbon, Portugal – Kalorma08-30 County Laois, Ireland – Electric Picnic
