Kelela Hallucinogen EP

"I met Alejandro [Arca] on a boat in August of 2012. We sought one another out across a dance floor and within 5 minutes agreed to meet each other as soon as possible to collaborate. I had one song released to my name and had just heard one of his mixes, but we knew we'd found something in one another. We spent the next three days, 14 hours a day talking about our artistic visions and how it intersected with our personal lives, making songs that reflected that while dancing around the room to let it all out. About 5 or 6 demos were born out of these three days.

"A Message" is one of the demos that came from those sessions and it speaks to the despair that I was experiencing at the time. The initial version of the song spilled out of us in about 25 minutes. Since then, it's been like a sculpture that I've come to and refined over time, adding a lyric here, refining a melody there, adding a bridge, etc. It's a process that is now finally complete with its release and I'm so happy that I finally get to share it with all of you."

-Kelela, Facebook

1. A Message
2. Gomenasai
3. Swoop
4. All The Way Down
5. Hallucinogen
6. The High

This EP includes tracks which isn't going to end up on her forthcoming debut album, which is set for a fall release. Kelela appeared with her Cut 4 Me mixtape which got critics raving. The Message, the first single from the EP was co-written by Arca.

While still working on the details, Kelela decided to reschedule the EP release date, since "it’s just not there yet", she explained to the New York Magazine.