Ex-Brockhampton head Kevin Summary declares new album ‘Blush’, shares demo tape of axed tracks
Former Brockhampton member Kevin Summary has introduced a brand new album, ‘Blush’.
Summary – who led the acclaimed group Brockhampton till their break up in 2022 – has revealed his new album, ‘Blush’. The album, in accordance with the musician, is due for launch someday this month, although a concrete launch date has but to be introduced.
Kevin Summary first teased ‘Blush’ again in Might, when he described the challenge as a brand new group with “no finalised members”: “Blush is just not a set group. There aren’t any everlasting members. It’s a platform for locating new prospects by means of collaboration. The group is ever-changing and might contain anybody who brings worth to the imaginative and prescient: Musicians, photographers, designers, videographers, fashions, DJs, and many others.”
Blush pic.twitter.com/qai7OQuiPM
— Kevin Summary (@kevinabstract) May 26, 2025
He then went on to label Blush as his “new company”, and wrote that anybody on social media who might assist him get an Instagram deal with for the challenge “can hear the album early”.
He’s since appeared to counsel that the challenge can be a “summer album” with “breakup vibes” – he’s additionally known as it “my new album”, suggesting that whereas the Blush ethos remains to be formulated round a gaggle, he can be mastermind-ing the challenge.
BLUSH. MY NEW ALBUM. JUNE. pic.twitter.com/ZJX8Ef9DLw
— Kevin Summary (@kevinabstract) June 4, 2025
On June 6, Kevin Summary shared the primary preview of ‘Blush’ with the Dominic Fike-featuring monitor ‘Geezer’, and an accompanying music video. He then stated Blush are “principally” like “a brand new Brockhampton with JPEG and Quadeca and Dom Fike”.
Mainly https://t.co/kTulI6iDAz
— Kevin Summary (@kevinabstract) June 5, 2025
The ‘Blush’ album is “inspired” by Kevin Abstract’s “heroes” like Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Lana Del Rey.
Final night time (June 8), Kevin Summary shared a demo tape on Discord of the songs being left off the ‘Blush’ album – you can check it out here.
Just for the discord. https://t.co/lhT5OIqRYf pic.twitter.com/nDPjHAIGRb
— Kevin Summary (@kevinabstract) June 8, 2025
In a newly revealed letter on the ‘Blush’ challenge, Abstract shared on social media: “I’ve all the time needed to make an album like ‘Blush’. In methods I’ve made data like this earlier than however I’ve by no means produced em at this degree of high quality when it boils right down to storytelling and sonic shaping. Final summer season was heavy, terrible. I misplaced the love of my life. It acquired so unhealthy that I needed to go away California. I went again to Texas to hyperlink w my day ones. Household, ya know? Ya boy needed to sluggish issues downa nd look within the mirror, and be a grown up. Reduce the bitch stuff out. I used to be like, oh, okay. I AM 100% AT MY BEST after I’m directing different artists.”
“After I went to jail over some bullshit out in Conroe, I realised how a lot I care about my work and my viewers. And likewise how I’ve been [taking] so many issues as a right for therefore lengthy. Not solely did I really feel responsible, I felt small… This profession, this business, this art-form. My Life… I care loads. I’m robust. I acquired us. BLUSH is the way in which. June 2025.”
Kevin Summary’s final solo album was 2023’s ‘Blanket’, of which Thomas Smith wrote in a three-star evaluation for NME: “‘Blanket’ looks like one other piece of the grand puzzle that’s Kevin Summary, and although it won’t be his strongest materials – heartfelt, for positive – he stays an alluring determine, a lightning rod for concepts. He’s, reliably, by no means boring.”