Summary
- Daniel Caesar is teasing a new album, presumably titled Son of Spergy
- The musician shared a trailer as well as a website with presave links for the new project
- In the trailer, Caesar tagged Bon Iver, Clairo, Sampha, and more
Daniel Caesar seems to be cooking something up. After recently contributing to Blood Orange‘s “The Field” comeback track, Caesar appears to be plotting a grand return of his own; aside from a two-pack with Rex Orange County that dropped this past Valentine’s Day, Caesar has been quiet in terms of solo music since his most recent album, NEVER ENOUGH, in April of 2023. But that’s about to change …
Caesar’s new project is presumably titled Son of Spergy, the name used throughout Caesar’s recent social media trailer and the URL of the album’s official website, which currently houses an embedded video of the trailer below as well as pre-save links to the project.
In the trailer, he also tags Bon Iver, Clairo, Dev Hynes, Sampha, Rex Orange County, and 646yf4t.
He first shared a “trailer” of sorts on his Instagram feed (after clearing everything else from his grid), which also comes overlain with a lengthy message.
“I’m trying to write a letter announcing the album, but I want it to be profound and clever. I have this secret desire to think and express a thought that’s never been thought before. But alas,” it begins.
“When I was little, any time my dad was disappointed in me or felt as though I needed motivation (or he wanted me to understand him, which I didn’t at the time), he would tell me his carefully curated but true origin story. He would tell me of the glory days of the Jamaica tourism industry and how he would sing dinner music at Doctor’s Cave Beach to foreigners from all over the world. He told me how a friendly couple from Canada heard him sing and brought him to Canada to sing on 3ABN (an Adventist TV station). This would spark his love for the country, and later, he would go on to move there and meet my mother. He would tell me these stories and I would listen uninterestedly due to having heard them 1000 times. He would warn me of the dangers this world had to offer, seemingly pleasant but in fact fleeting, and would encourage me to center God in my life.”
It closes out with: “Everything is vanity. Family is everything. Be truthful and forthright in your dealings. Never forget that god is the only eternal measuring stick for morality. I am nothing, but in my flesh I am Spergy’s Son, and in my spirit I am God’s.”
Stay tuned as more information on the new album arises.
