{"id":1219,"date":"2026-07-09T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:49:59","slug":"kelela-new-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/kelela-new-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelela &#8211; New Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/510745873\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelela returns with <em>new avatar<\/em>, her third studio album and first on Warp Records. Dropped July 10, this is her most ambitious work yet\u2014a full reimagining of her sound that pulls rock, shoegaze, grunge, and UK garage into her alt-R&amp;B world. It\u2019s not a soft pivot. It\u2019s a complete new skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Kelela in full control. Confrontational, beautiful, and uncompromising. <em>new avatar<\/em> doesn\u2019t just expand her sound\u2014it redraws the map. One of the strongest albums of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelela returns with new avatar, her third studio album and first on Warp Records. Dropped July 10, this is her most ambitious work yet\u2014a full reimagining of her sound that pulls rock, shoegaze, grunge, and UK garage into her alt-R&amp;B world. It\u2019s not a soft pivot. It\u2019s a complete new skin. This is Kelela in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album","category-rb-rhythm-and-blues","category-rhythm-and-blues","category-rnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}