Ahead of his new album being released later this month, the young singer/songwriter has taken to Twitter to announce the new single off his sophomore effort. ‘Be An Astronaut‘ is set to be premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show at 5pm tonight. It will then be available to stream half an hour later.
This new track will be the fourth single to come from the album and, if the others are anything to go by, it will be top quality. In a perfect world, we would have already had his new album as it was meant to come out in May but it was postponed due to coronavirus. But now it is only 16 days away and I am as excited as ever to hear it.
More music soon come. ‘Be An Astronaut’ will be available everywhere tomorrow at 5.30pm BST / 12.30PM EST / 9.30AM PT, hear it first on @beats1 with @zanelowe. Buzzing! You can listen live over here from 5pm BST tomorrow where I’ll be chatting to Zane-> https://t.co/Nrt9ZX0Tx8pic.twitter.com/jinjkPvrQr
— Declan McKenna (@DeclanMcKenna) August 4, 2020
Initially McKenna came to prominence after winning the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition and then released his single ‘Brazil’ shortly after. This amazed audiences and shot him to the public eye at just the age of 16. They were impressed with the topical feel of his writing and the soundscape he was able to craft blending indie and pop seamlessly into one.
To think that Declan McKenna is still only 21 years old amazes me sometimes. So far, in his career, he has shown that he has so much talent and is much smarter beyond his years that you would be forgiven in thinking he was mid way through his career. But, no, he is still only 21 and has so many years ahead of him.
He has hinted at this album taking a different tone to his debut one and, so far, it still sounds as good as his first. Not departing fully from his signature sound but bringing enough of a change in has worked wonders and has freshened his sound up fully. So hopefully we see this album hit the heights that his previous release got to.
Hopefully he does get to tour fully after the release of this album as he deserves it. Having the release halted by the sudden outbreak of coronavirus must have taken the wind completely out of his sails. Given the fact that he is so young, he deserves to get the reward from putting all the effort into it to not be able to tour after it. But, he does have plenty more albums in him all of the highest quality it seems.
