Santigold has announced that she will release her third album, 99 Cents, on January 22nd. Created with photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi, the album cover shows the singer lying vacuum-packed among her possessions with a “99 cents” price tag in the corner. The cover art reflects the fact that commercialism will be a recurring theme in the album’s tracks. “We have no illusion that we don’t live in this world where everything is packaged,” she explains in a press release. “People’s lives, persona; everything is deliberate and mediated. It can be dark and haunting and tricky, and freak us out, but it can be also be silly and fun and we can learn to play with it.”
The album, Santigold’s follow-up to 2012’s Master of My Make-Believe, finds the genre-hopping artist working with longtime producers John Hill and Dave Sitek, as well as new collaborators including Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Sky Ferreira co-writer Justin Raisen and Robyn/Charli XCX hit-maker Patrik Berger. Alongside the album announcement, Santigold has dropped catchy new single Can’t Get Enough of Myself, on which she delivers super-empowered lyrics like “ain’t a gambler but honey I’d put money on myself” over a warped Motown beat.
Here’s Santigold’s 99 Cents tracklist in full:
Can’t Get Enough of Myself (feat. B.C.)
Big Boss Big Time Business
Banshee
Chasing Shadows
Walking in a Circle
Who Be Lovin Me (feat. ILOVEMAKONNEN)
Rendezvous Girl
Before the Fire
All I Got
Outside the War
Run the Races
Who I Thought You Were