Fousheé drops new single “100bux”
Fousheé has dropped new single “100bux,” the track is also paired with a visualizer and marks the third release off her forthcoming album Pointy Heights available September 13th via RCA Records.“100bux” sets off with a grungy baseline, and later finds Fousheé interpolating Musical Youth’s iconic track “Pass the Dutchie.” After recently visiting her family’s land in Jamaica for the first time since she was a kid, and consequently diving deeper into her mother’s history as a member of the 1980s all-female reggae group PEP.
The album was announced earlier this month alongside the Steve Lacy-produced lead single “still around,” featuring a propulsive groovy bassline and a music video shot on her family’s property in Jamaica. It was followed by calypso-infused track “war.” To celebrate the upcoming project, Fousheé announces two tour dates. She’ll grace the stage of Paris’ Les Toiles on Friday, October 4 and later stop at Jazz Cafe in London on Monday, October 7.
The LP shares its name with the land her grandfather purchased in Jamaica, with the intention that her whole family could build homes and live there. With Pointy Heights, Fousheé zigs out of the frenetic R&B-punk of her acclaimed previous album, softCORE, as she paints an entirely new sonic palette. Playing the part of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, we enter a world shaped by her home, where old school, indie Reggae, rhythms buoy dance-friendly melodies and a natural cool that makes her the go-to collaborator for today’s biggest artists. The album is a 180 by an artist who makes genres feel like quaint ideas of a bygone era. In Pointy Heights, Fousheé makes an entirely new sound, an effortlessly bold move from an artist who has created one of the most adventurous, melodically resonant records of the year.
The path around the globe took Fousheé back to Jamaica, where her family is from; a place she had not been to since she was six years old. Fousheé had been in the middle of writing songs for her next project when the trip happened, and it literally changed everything. She scrapped the songs on which she’d been working and started anew, using elements of the music that was literally in her blood to help push her songwriting and sounds forward.
Over the past couple of years, Fousheé has collaborated with Childish Gambino’s Donald Glover, Steve Lacy, Teezo Touchdown, Lil Yachty, and more.
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