Neo-soul icon Erykah Badu and our longtime client The Alchemist have shared their highly-anticipated collaborative album “Before the World Blows: The Abi & Alan Experiment,” marking Badu’s first album in over 15 years. The project is composed of 16 adventurous tracks including “Black Box (feat. Kamasi Washington),” which was featured on Spotify’s “New Music Friday!” The album is filled with tasteful features while feeling timely in its themes, which they describe as reflections of “which parts of ourselves and our stories are worth protecting before the world breaks and fragments.”