Tune-Yards announces details of their fifth studio album, sketchy.The 11-track record, which includes last years single nowhere, man, will be released on 26 March 2021, on 4AD.

Released 26th March 2021.

Tune-Yards last releaseI can feel you creep into my privatelife, was a self-reflexive question mark at the end of a decade of outspoken, polyphonic indie music. From 2009 to 2018, Tune-Yards (both Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically acclaimed albums, travelled the world relentlessly to play live shows, and composed the psychedelic score to Boots Riley's surrealist cinematic masterpieceSorry To Bother You. "We had really been non-stop hustling," Merrill reflects. "And when we're hustling, we're complicit in all of the systems that I really don't believe in."

Interrogating these systems and her role within them had left Merrill feeling heavy with grief and lost about