Daniel Caesar has teased a new album, ‘Son Of Spergy’, which seems to feature a host of special guests. Find all the details below.
In recent weeks, the musician featured on the new Blood Orange single ‘The Field’, and also received production credits on Justin Bieber’s surprise album ‘SWAG’. Now, he’s teasing his own LP, which will be a follow-up to 2023’s ‘Never Enough’.
The announcement came last night (July 19), with a video on Instagram with overlain text that read: “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.
“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,” Ceaser continued. “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.”
The statement goes on to say: “Being young is so interesting because how many times does a person have to hear good advice before it becomes cliche? We resent the cliches of our parents until we become them. I am now the herald all I refused to believe in.
“I’m now the same age my dad was when he had me, and I can’t help but be embarrassed by how much smarter than him I thought I was; because I went to school in Canada and I could construct sentences more eloquently than he could. That’s the thing about the culture here (another cliche), we continually conflate the sounding smart with wisdom. Lately I’ve come to a place where I realize no one will ever think a thought that hasn’t been thought before, nor will anyone try a thing that hasn’t been tried before.
“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.”
In the clip, Caesar tags Bon Iver, Clairo, Dev Hynes, Sampha, Rex Orange County, and 646yf4t, who are presumed to be the album’s collaborators.
Alongside the clip, Caesar wrote the caption: “Son of Spergy. 2025”, implying that the album will be released this year, though no official date has been confirmed.
In other news, last summer, Caesar was among the artists who performed at Mustafa‘s London Edition of his Artists For Aid Benefit gig, in aid of benefiting humanitarian efforts in both Palestine and Sudan.
