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Moonchild Sanelly announces new album, Phases

By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 18 March 2022

Moonchild Sanelly has announced that she will release her new album ‘Phases’ – the follow-up to 2020’s mini-album ‘Nüdes’ – this summer. Alongside the announcement comes new single ‘Strip Club’, which features Ghetts.

“This song means so much to me”, she says of the single. “Especially as the people being entertained in the strip club are the ones condemning these women in the outside world. This is my love letter to the hustlers, the strippers and the twerkers – a celebration of the continuously judged. These people are doing what they need to for their hustle, and whenever there’s a woman fighting for survival I’m going to celebrate her and make her voice heard”.

“I want to change the narrative of [strip] clubs being perceived as foul spaces, and turn them into a space of liberation – to teach respectful culture, and tell people to come correct to witness the beauty and the hustle of the underrepresented”, she adds.

Of the album as a whole, she goes on: “I want people to relate to the stories I’m telling. Liberation for women, in the bedroom, in the boardroom, knowing your power… I need to be heard by a lot of people. I think that, with this album, I’ve managed to piece all the different parts of me together, because I’m known for different things in different parts of the world. I think you get to know me better with ‘Phases’ – all the different sides of me”.

‘Phases’ is set for release on 10 Jun. Ahead of that, she will play some UK shows, with a performance at Village Underground in London on 10 May and two shows at The Great Escape festival in Brighton on 12-13 May.

Listen to ‘Strip Club’ here: