Dawn Richard has announced her new album, Creole Culture, due out October 9th via Merge Records. The New Orleans multidisciplinary artist has also revealed the project’s latest single, “enough.” Stream it below.
Creole Culture is Richard’s love letter to her hometown, the latest iteration of her relationship with the location after 2019’s New Breed and 2021’s Second Line. “Creole Culture is my way of saying that New Orleans culture doesn’t have to live in the past to be authentic,” Richard reflected in a press release. “It can be progressive. It can be global. It can be pop culture. It can look like me.”
Per the release, Creole Culture is “steeped in history but with its flag planted firmly in the future,” pulling elements from Richard’s heritage as a Black and Native American woman with a lifetime spent making music. In Richard’s eyes, the album is the latest installment of a fully-realized sonic and narrative universe in which she, as King Creole, re-fashions and re-constructs her hometown in her image.
“enough” is adornment in aural form; in addition to exalting her city for everything it has offered her, the artist also finds time to home in on the basics. Over horn-filled production that floats on a sample of Sister Nancy’s beloved 1982 track “Bam Bam,” Dawn Richard loves on her partner while hyping herself up to the task of being a worthy partner. “I never really knew love could really be like this,” Richard sings. “I’m usually better at doing my own shit/ But I’ma try to own up and do this love drip.”
Listen to the song below.
Dawn Richard will perform in select cities in the late summer and fall, starting August 8th in Chicago, followed by dates in New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Tickets are available here.
Creole Culture Artwork:
Creole Culture Tracklist:
1. a creole culture intro (Feat. Big Freedia)
2. enough
3. only fans
4. chuuuuurch (Feat. Anjelika ‘Jelly’ Joseph)
5. groove city (Feat. Frank Richard of Chocolate Milk)
6. l v r (Feat. Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball)
7. pilates
8. baby, can we? (Feat. Durand Bernarr)
9. motives
10. fiesta
11. faith in the fire
Dawn Richard 2026 Tour Dates:
08/08 — Chicago, IL @ Northalsted Market Days
10/02 — New Orleans, LA @ Orpheum Theater *
11/04 — New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
11/05 — Philadelphia, PA @ Music Hall at World Cafe Live
11/07 — Washington, DC @ Transmission
* = w/ Tank and The Bangas, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
