Kelsey Lu’s highly anticipated debut album, Blood, is out today on Columbia Records—listen below

To celebrate the release, Lu will play two sold-out headline shows at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Further shows are slated for Arizona’s FORM Festival, San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, Berlin’s Berghain, London’s Kings Place, Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival and several dates in Japan this summer.

Lu recently played one of the inaugural performances at long-awaited New York venue The Shed as part of Soundtrack To America, a special project in partnership with Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones. The Wall Street Journal hailed her performance as “incantatory.”

Lu made Blood with Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Sampha, Kanye West) as well as additional production from Jamie xx on “Why Knock for You” and “Foreign Car,” Adrian Younge on “Blood” and Skrillex on “Due West.” Blood also features work from Lu’s sister, the violinist Jessica McJunkins.

Previously released singles are receiving widespread acclaim with Pitchfork calling “Due West” Lu’s “most arresting excursion yet.” Noisey hails “Blood” as “dreamy pop…the sort of vocals you want to swim in,” while The FADER proclaims Lu’s cover of 10cc’s classic “I’m Not In Love” is “meditative, oscillating between ambient and familiar.” Blood is Lu’s first project in three years since the critically acclaimed Church EP released on True Panther.

A vocalist, cellist and producer, Lu left her Charlotte, North Carolina home at 18 to study cello at the prestigious University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She spent several years traveling, including a stint in a squat in Hoboken, NJ, and is now based in Los Angeles. Lu has collaborated and shared stages with the likes of Jamie xx, Florence +the Machine, Solange, Sampha, Blood Orange, Mariah Carey, Skrillex, Oneohtrix Point Never, Sampha, and many more. Beyond music, her collaborators across film and fashion have included Gucci, Jil Sander, Kahlil Joseph and Kenzo, Jil Sander, Sean Frank, Grace Wales Bonner, Telfar, No Sesso, Come Tees and Total Luxury Spa. In the past year, Lu graced the cover of The Beat, Crack and V Magazine.

KELSEY LU—BLOOD
Rebel
Pushin Against The Wind
Due West
KINDRED I
Why Knock for You
Foreign Car
Poor Fake
Too Much
I’m Not in Love
KINDRED II
Atlantic
Down2ridE
Blood
KELSEY LU LIVE
April 23 Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Los Angeles, CA*
April 24 Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Los Angeles, CA*
April 28 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
May 10-12 FORM Festival Arcosanti, AZ
May 19 Kaleidoscope Festival Paris, France
May 26 Enouro Observatory Odawara, Japan
May 29 WWWX Tokyo, Japan
June 1-2 Vivid Festival Sydney, Australia
June 15 Dark MOFO Tasmania, Australia
July 19 Lunga Festival Iceland
July 22 Kantine am Berghain Berlin, Germany
July 23 Kings Place London, England
August 24 Afropunk Festival Brooklyn, New York