TRAИƧA: Selects, a collection of five tracks from the forthcoming compilation concept album, TRAИƧA, has arrived, featuring new songs from Sade Adu (her first in six years), L’Rain, André 3000, and more.
Released via the activist and music production non-profit Red Hot, TRAИƧA will be a musical celebration of trans and non-binary people, featuring over 100 artists. Sade’s contribution, a track titled “Young Lion,” arrives as a loving composition for her son, Izaak, a trans man. Stream it below.
Other new songs include L’Rain’s tribute to Anohni featuring the NYC Trans Oral History Project, “People Are Small / Rapture,” and a new ambient composition from André 3000 titled “Something Is Happening and I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy to Stand for the Understanding.”
Also featured on TRAИƧA: Selects are two previously-released singles: “Ever New” by Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland and a version of “I Would Die 4 U” by Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution.
TRAИƧA as a whole is due on November 22nd, and will feature songs by Jeff Tweedy, Faye Webster, Clairo, Perfume Genius, Alan Sparhawk, Bartees Strange, Adrianne Lenker, Fleet Foxes, Julien Baker, Laura Jane Grace, Moses Sumney, Kelela, Kara Jackson, Julie Byrne, Teddy Geiger, Frankie Cosmos, Devandra Banhart, Bill Callahan, Hunter Schafer, Christian Lee Hutson, Sharon Van Etten, Ezra Furman, and dozens more. Pre-orders are ongoing.
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TRAИƧA: Selects Tracklist:
01. Young Lion – Sade Adu
02. I Would Die 4 U – Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution
03. People Are Small / Rapture – L’Rain (feat. the NYC Trans Oral History Project)
04. Ever New – Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
05. Something Is Happening and I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy to Stand for the Understanding – André 3000
