When Black Pumas made their self-titled debut in 2019, the Austin-bred duo set off a reaction almost as combustible and rapturous as their music itself. Along with earning a career total of seven Grammy Award nominations (including Album Of The Year) and winning praise from leading outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, singer / songwriter Eric Burton and guitarist / producer Adrian Quesada achieved massive success as a live act, touring large theatres all over Europe and North and South America, delivering a transcendent show Burton aptly refers to as “electric church.”
As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, the band broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia, starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped down from the cosmos.
Wilder and weirder and more extravagantly composed than its predecessor, ‘Chronicles of a Diamond’ arrives as the fullest expression yet of Black Pumas’ frenetic creativity and limitless vision.
Available to independent retailers on transparent red vinyl LP LP in 300gsm matt machine varnish sleeve with 4pp insert.