Mykki Blanco Releases New Album CAFE PARADISO

 Mykki Blanco releases his brand new album, CAFE PARADISO, via Transgressive Records (listen HERE). Alongside the release, he also shares the energetic focus track “Spread For Me” (listen HERE).

CAFE PARADISO is an album about stillness, observation and the quiet intensity of being alone in public. “It’s not a point A-to-B record, or a pre-game record”, Blanco says. “It’s an album about enjoying your own company”.

Listen to "CAFE PARADISO" HERE

Listen to “Spread For Me” HERE

Recorded in New York and shaped in collaboration with longtime creative partner and producer Drew “FaltyDL” Lustman, CAFE PARADISO moves fluidly between styles and scenes, pulling together fragments of dance music, art pop, underground club culture and genre-splicing experimentation into what Blanco describes as a “three-act play” or “a festival album”, citing references as diverse as Saint Etienne, The Silver Apples and Towa Tei.

“I chose to record Café Paradiso in New York because I wanted to come home for a bit,” Blanco explains. “New York is where I ran away to when I was 16... where I first began writing music after dropping out of Parsons School of Design, where I published my first book of poetry, and where I launched my career on the underground scene 13 years ago.”

He continues: “Café Paradiso is a record for city kids. It’s heavily inspired by New York, but the New York of now, which isn’t parochial but transatlantic. Café Paradiso is also global. It’s a series of vignettes that speak to the lives lived inside the concrete jungle.”

CAFE PARADISO does not mark a rupture so much as a refinement in the career of Mykki Blanco. Drawing together years of experimentation across music, performance, and visual art, which has seen him collaborate with artists including Arca, Basement Jaxx, Charli XCX, Jamila Woods, Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu, Michael Stipe, Anohni and Jónsi, this album arrives at a point of transient clarity - it is a confident statement of intent, positioning Blanco not simply as a shape-shifter, but as an artist in full command of his present form.

If Blanco’s catalogue has long been defined by constant reinvention, CAFE PARADISO represents a new kind of clarity. Following 2022’s Stay Close to Music and the 2023 Postcards from Italia EP, Blanco stepped away from recording to pursue a Master in Fine Arts in Switzerland, deepening a multidisciplinary visual art practice before returning to songwriting with renewed focus.

“I love creating music but I’ve never liked the idea of being a one-trick pony”, Blanco explains. “I need to check some things off my ‘Life List.’”

Alongside the release of CAFE PARADISO, Mykki Blanco shares focus track “Spread For Me”, an upfront and wholesome pop-adjacent track that hints at something carnal and epicurean hiding under the surface.

“Spread For Me” follows the release of latest single “NYC Dogs”, the uncompromising party anthem, “Butt Sex”, and “Little Feet”, which was BBC Radio 6 Music A-Listed and offered the first glimpse into the cosmopolitan, after-hours world of CAFE PARADISO.

CAFE PARADISO Tracklist:

1. Little Feet

2. NYC Dogs

3. Butt Sex

4. Easy Does It

5. Wasted in Soho

6. FOXES

7. F**k as Friends

8. Hey Dopeman

9. Tough Guy

10. Cut Me Open

11. Spread For Me

12. God Is Alive

MYKKI BLANCO LIVE DATES 2026:

September:

• 06 - London, UK - Rough Trade East

October

• 09 - Bologna, IT - Dumbo
• 10 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory
• 11 - Berlin, DE - Kantine Am Berghain
• 14 - Copenhagen, DK - Alice
• 15 - Helsinki, FI - Kuudes Linka
• 16 - Aarhus, DK - Phono Aarhus
• 17 - Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang
• 19 - Vienna, AT - Das Werk
• 20 - Innsbruck, AT - PMK
• 21 - St. Gallen, AT - PMK
• 22 - Fribourg, CH - Fri-Son
• 24 - San Sebastian, ES - Dabadaba
• 27 - Paris, FR - Badaboum
• 28 - Brussels, BE - Beursschouwburg
• 30 - Dublin, IE - Soundhouse
• 31 - London, Moth Club

November

• 03 - Glasgow - The Hug and Pint
• 04 - Leeds - Belgrave Music Hall
• 05 - Manchester - The Deaf Institute
• 06 - Newcastle - Xerox
• 07 - Bristol - Strange Brew
• 10 - Brighton - Concorde 2