Jordan Rakei Announces New Album A Safe Place To Be Wild Out October 30 (Fontana)

Jordan Rakei Announces New Album A Safe Place To Be Wild Out October 30 (Fontana)

Releases New Single "Enemies" / LISTEN HERE

July 15, 2026 - Jordan Rakei today announces his forthcoming seventh album, A Safe Place To Be Wild, due for release onOctober 30 via Fontana. Alongside the announcement, he shares the first single, "Enemies." The news is accompanied by details of his biggest-ever UK and European headline tour, culminating in his largest show to date at London's 10,000-capacity Alexandra Palace on April 24, 2027. Additional international dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

A Safe Place To Be Wild , the seventh album from Rakei, arrives after more than a decade of reshaping the contours of soul, jazz and alternative R&B. His most instinctive and fearless work to date, it is an intimate, surreal and emotionally direct record about self-acceptance, vulnerability and creative freedom. Stripping everything back to raw feeling, Rakei lets go of expectation and steps into a more unguarded space, embracing the stranger, freer parts of himself with a sense of play, honesty and instinct.

The 14 songs on A Safe Place To Be Wild were mostly created while Rakei was Abbey Road's first-ever Artist in Residence. Having access to one of the world's most famous studios, Rakei spent multiple days a week for nearly a year working on songs. No rules, no self-imposed creative parameters - he freed himself to follow whatever creative impulse struck him. He found inspiration in creatively courageous artists like David Byrne, Beck, St. Vincent, Grace Jones, Radiohead and Funkadelic. Some songs came from characters that Rakei imagined from his subconscious, method-acting how they would handle certain situations. Friends would join him in the studio to make hard-edged punk one day, techno the next. Rakei would bring the demos back and forth to his home studio in a small village outside of London, refining them along the way. The result is a collection of music with thrilling surprises at every turn.

Out today is the brand-new single,"Enemies." Embodying a '70s-tinged psych-soul sound, "Enemies" carries a laid-back, rootsy warmth and a hazy, summer-tinged feel, the track captures the ambition and self-assured spirit of the album.Rakei says:"'Enemies' has a playful, almost arrogant energy to it, not from bitterness, but from self-confidence. It's an ownership song about not taking any more crap, rising above past dynamics, and turning all of that into positive energy. It's dedicated to all the enemies of my past, haha". Listen here

A Safe Place To Be Wild is available in multiple formats, including a CD digipack, exclusive indie red vinyl, an opaque signed vinyl edition, and standard black vinyl. Pre-order A Safe Place To Be Wild here.

Over the past 10 years, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Rakei has built a loyal global fanbase around his distinctive, ever-evolving musical voice. Across seven albums he has moved fluidly between neo-soul warmth, jazz-inflected improvisation, melodic pop songwriting, sweeping orchestral arrangements and deeply narrative-driven composition. He has collaborated with artists including Loyle Carner, Tom Misch and Bonobo, and earned critical acclaim including a nomination for Best Album at the 2025 Ivor Novello Awards for his sixth record The Loop, which entered the Top 40 in the UK, alongside nominations for an AIR Award and the Australian Music Prize. Rakei has also been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk , hosted a BBC Proms in 2024 and performed on Later…with Jools Holland . Onstage, his expansive and meticulously crafted live shows have taken him from Glastonbury to two sold-out nights at London's Royal Albert Hall. In early 2026 he released an EP of collaborations with Tom McFarland of Jungle, FKJ, Jalen Ngonda, Nubya Garcia and Ezra Collective's Femi Koleoso.

A Safe Place To Be Wild - Track Listing:

1. Eden

2. Promise

3. Would Ya Mind

4. Enemies

5. Grace

6. Paradise

7. Games

8. From The Outside

9. Mirror

10. Go

11. I'm Out

12. If I

13. Pub

14. Whispers In The Wind

A SAFE PLACE TO BE WILD TOUR 2027

EUROPE

Mar 27 - Vasateatern, Stockholm

Mar 28 - Vega Main Hall, Copenhagen

Mar 29 - Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg

Mar 31 - Huxleys, Berlin

Apr 1 - Roxy, Prague

Apr 2 - Palladium, Warsaw

Apr 4 - Arena, Vienna

Apr 6 - Kaufleuten, Zurich

Apr 7 - Magazzini Generali, Milan

Apr 9 - La Rayonne, Lyon

Apr 10 - Bataclan, Paris

Apr 11 - De Roma, Antwerp

Apr 13 - Gashouder, Amsterdam

Apr 14 - Stadthalle, Cologne

UK

Apr 16 - Bristol Beacon, Bristol

Apr 17 - Albert Hall, Manchester

Apr 24 - Alexandra Palace, London

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