--- title: D'Angelo's New Album Is Finally Coming Out, Manager Says description: The record has been about 12 years in the making canonical: https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-19T15:25:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:30:45.492Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: D'Angelo's New Album Is Finally Coming Out, Manager Says og:description: The record has been about 12 years in the making og:url: https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dbf26f5056594c2/6986984713c79f8d0b192b7b/dangelo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: D'Angelo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: D'Angelo's New Album Is Finally Coming Out, Manager Says twitter:description: The record has been about 12 years in the making twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dbf26f5056594c2/6986984713c79f8d0b192b7b/dangelo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # D'Angelo's New Album Is Really Actually Truly Happening, Manager Says  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 19, 2014 3:25 PM UTC  D'Angelo performing in 2012. D'Angelo performing in 2012.Charles Sykes—Invision/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 19, 2014 3:25 PM UTC The long-awaited new album from soul singer D’Angelo — his first since 2000’s _Voodoo_ — is sort of like the Loch Ness Monster: there is evidence suggesting it exists, but it hasn’t ever revealed itself, becoming more of a myth with each passing day. But one year after promising that the record was on the way, D’Angelo’s manager, Kevin Liles, says [it’s definitely happening this time](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6121659/dangelo-album-release-2014-touring-october-manager). Really. For real. No joke. “There’ll be an album this year,” [he told _Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6121659/dangelo-album-release-2014-touring-october-manager). “There’s 14 records so far, we might have a couple of bonus records, but all the recording is basically done and we’re mixing and mastering now. Definitely, he’ll be back.” The cause of the delay? D’Angelo is a perfectionist — no surprise from someone who’s spent more than a decade working on new material. Liles explains: --- > “” --- 2014 could use a little [brown sugar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtZWO3HgRdA), but as with Nessie, we’ll believe it when we see it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/"},"headline":"D'Angelo's New Album Is Really Actually Truly Happening, Manager Says","datePublished":"2014-06-19T15:25:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:30:45.492Z","description":"The record has been about 12 years in the making","url":"https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dbf26f5056594c2/6986984713c79f8d0b192b7b/dangelo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dbf26f5056594c2/6986984713c79f8d0b192b7b/dangelo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"D'Angelo","caption":"D'Angelo","creditText":"Charles Sykes—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2900822/dangelo-new-album/","name":"D'Angelo's New Album Is Really Actually Truly Happening, Manager Says"}}]}] ```