''Pink Noise'' is the third studio album by the British singer Laura Mvula, released on 2 July 2021 by

Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...

. Its release was five years after ''

The Dreaming Room ''The Dreaming Room'' is the second studio album by British singer Laura Mvula, released three years after her debut album. It features production works from executive producer Troy Miller and has been heavily produced by the instrumental crew tha ...

'', released in 2016. The album was preceded by the singles "Safe Passage" and "Church Girl", the latter being issued along with the album's announcement.

Background

Mvula called the album the one she "always wanted to make", and described it as "made with warm sunset tones of the '80s", saying it "took three years of waiting and waiting and fighting and dying and nothingness and then finally an explosion of sound". The album follows the ''1/f'' EP, released in February 2021. The EP was named after the technical name for

pink noise Pink noise or noise is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density (power per frequency interval) is inversely proportional to the frequency of the signal. In pink noise, each octave interval (halving ...

on the

frequency spectrum The power spectrum S_(f) of a time series x(t) describes the distribution of power into frequency components composing that signal. According to Fourier analysis, any physical signal can be decomposed into a number of discrete frequencies, ...

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Track listing

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