The Blessed Madonna has announced that she will release her debut album Godspeed on 11 October.
The 24-track album features collaborators Kylie Minogue, Joy Crookes, Joy Anonymous, Jamie Principle, A-Track, James Vincent McMorrow and more.
The Blessed Madonna wrote Godspeed across the course of three years. The album is now set to land featuring hte singles Mercy (with Jacob Lusk), Serotonin Moonbeams and the Top 20 single Happier featuring Clementine Douglas.
The album embraces The Blessed Madonna’s roots in underground electronic music as well as soul, new-age gospel and R’n’B. It promises to pull in personal themes balancing rave and religion, joy and grief.
Speaking about the album The Blessed Madonna (aka Marea Stamper) explained:
“Godspeed: the word marks the beginning of a journey and sometimes the end of one”.
“After nearly a year in lockdown, when I signed the paperwork and knew that I was going to be allowed to make this album, I called my dad in Kentucky to tell him the good news. He could not contain his pride and in a way his relief. I was going to be ok. He says it better than I do at the beginning of the record. I lost him suddenly just weeks before the first session, but his voice will live in Godspeed forever and make a million more journeys to everyone who hears it.
This is a welcome and a farewell.
The end of a journey and the beginning.
A clock running out and an alarm.
These are the days running over the hills like wild horses and nights that never end.
There is no second of this album that was not touched, heard, shaped and believed in by The Godsquad, and first and foremost my twin, my brother Pat Alvarez.
And then by some miracle Jon and Dom from Sportsbanger appeared and seemed to instantly understand how to get inside of this project and speak on my behalf in visual ways. They saw me immediately and helped me make sense. To be able to trust them was a relief, a vindication and a blessing. I have no higher respect for any group of artists.
So here it is:
This is Godspeed.
This is your chance.
Now do your dance.”
