Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Vinyl 2LP)
Transparent Neon Orange Vinyl • 2LP • Gatefold Sleeve • Lyric Sheet Insert
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About the album.
Before The World Blows is a collaborative soul album from Erykah Badu and producer The Alchemist, released in August 2026. It is Badu’s first full album since New Amerykah Part Two in 2010.
Its full title is Before The World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment. Recorded over 18 months between Dallas and Los Angeles, it moves through soul, blues, funk, rock, jazz and underground hip hop without settling on any one of them.
The pair took an unusual route to release, performing the album in full at phone-free shows before anyone could stream it. Badu has called those shows the best thing to happen to her this decade.
The guest list runs deep, with DRAM, Westside Gunn, Steve Lacy, Thundercat, Earl Sweatshirt and Kamasi Washington all appearing. The album includes the 2025 single ‘Next 2 U’ and the lead track ‘Witch Doctor’.
For The Alchemist, whose production stretches from Mobb Deep to Earl Sweatshirt and Freddie Gibbs, it is a meeting with one of the defining voices of neo soul.
This edition is pressed on transparent neon orange vinyl across two LPs in a gatefold sleeve, with a lyric sheet insert and belly band.
Tracklist.
Pressing details.
Format
Sleeve
Gatefold
Vinyl colour
Neon
Orange
Label
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889030051509
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Condition
Original release
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