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KeiyaA<\/a>, the Chicago-born, NYC-based soul musician, singer-songwriter, and producer, has announced a new album. Her sophomore LP is titled Hooke\u2019s Law<\/em><\/a> and comes out October 31 via XL<\/a>. Leading the record is the new song \u201cTake It<\/a>\u201d and its moody, low-lit music video co-directed by Caity Arthur<\/a> and KeiyaA. Watch it below.<\/p>\n \u201cAn album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn\u2019t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care. It\u2019s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It\u2019s more of a cycle, a spiral – it\u2019s Hooke’s law,\u201d said KeiyaA. \u201cWith this work, I aim to interrogate and embrace anger and conflict, disappointment and dissatisfaction, about not being docile and about rejecting mammyism and traditional expectations of fat black brown and dark skinned women in our communities. I speak about desire + longing, about examining maladaptive tendencies, conflict avoidance \u2013 the eternal relationship with the self.\u201d<\/p>\n Hooke\u2019s Law<\/em> follows KeiyaA\u2019s breakout debut album, 2020\u2019s Forever, Ya Girl<\/em><\/a>, her 2022 single \u201cCamille\u2019s Daughter<\/a>,\u201d and her full-length stage production, Milk Thot<\/em><\/a>, that ran in New York. The new LP was written, sung, and produced by KeiyaA herself over the past five years, in addition to her playing every instrument on the songs. Also included on the lengthy tracklist is the previously released single \u201cStupid Prizes<\/a>\u201d from last month.<\/p>\n Revisit the Rising interview \u201cKeiyaA\u2019s Divine Soul<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n