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\n\tThe album SZA recently called<\/a> \u201cthe most beautiful shit I\u2019ve heard all year\u201d is on the way. Laila!<\/a> is ready to engulf listeners inside her world with a new album,We\u2019ll Never Be This Young Again\u2019<\/em>,out Oct. 23. Two years after her stunning debut, <\/em>Gap Year<\/em><\/a> \u2014 which earned her a spot on our Future 25<\/a> list \u2014 the producer-singer-songwriter has transitioned out of her childhood bedroom studio and into legit recording rooms in New York, Atlanta, and Paris for her follow-up. \u201cI think this project really does show the ways I\u2019ve grown up,\u201d Laila! tells Rolling Stone<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m buying my own groceries and shit and doing everything for myself. It\u2019s been a great experience for me.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tNews of the new body of work comes with her latest single and a teaser for the title track, \u201cWe\u2019ll Never Be This Young Again.\u201d Before the song\u2019s release, Laila teased it on her Instagram with a stripped-down video of herself recording the vocals at a desk in her apartment. \u201cWith creating this album, I became really obsessed with nostalgia and postcards and memories and travel and people and places and things,\u201d she says. The obsession is evident in the cover for Young Again<\/em>, which features a headshot of Laila! framed by an ocean shore with a mango stamp in the upper right corner, a nod to the album\u2019s lead single, \u201cMiss Mango.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tLaila! caught up with Rolling Stone<\/em> to talk about all the life experiences she\u2019s gained between Gap Year<\/em> and her latest 12-track offering, like moving into her own apartment, being in her \u201clover girl\u201d era, and getting into martial arts.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n