SET FOR RELEASE JULY 17, 2026
Listen to First Single “the feeling” + Watch Music Video Now
Steve Lacy press photo, credit: Gus Van Sant — download HERE
“The subtleties and texture in the vocals, the tactile rumble of drums, and the almost effervescent guitar melodies. The tracks…strike a personal, introspective tone, as if Lacy’s taken the perceptive and cunning lens he’s used to observe life and love from 10,000 feet, and turned it inward. He inhabits these songs emotionally, exploring themes around his racial identity, his relationship to love and trust, and his own sexual fluidity, all with the halfway comedic, occasionally devastating style of observation he’s built a career on.” – Rolling Stone on Oh yeah?, August 2025
Steve Lacy will release his third album, Oh yeah?, onJuly 17, 2026 via RCA Records. The album’s first single “the feeling,” out now, is a brilliant reminder of Lacy’s ability to manifest modern Pop, Alt, and R&B in a sound that is less genre-defying and more genre-defining. An accompanying music video for “the feeling,” directed by Matt Castellanos, is also out now.
WATCH “THE FEELING” MUSIC VIDEO HERE
PRE-ORDER Oh yeah? HERE
Oh yeah? is Steve’s most personal art to date - the culmination of a four-year journey whereupon Steve found himself feeling at home in foreign countries and situations and less at home at home. Taking the reins of the production, writing, performance, and the creative, Steve eventually found his way back, and we are thankful he did.
It’s a record for guitar kids who love synths and synth kids who love guitars. It’s an album splashed with raw openness[1], energetic connection[2], sonic beauty, and some of Lacy’s most personal, transparent[3] lyrics. Oh yeah? is intersectional[4], cutting, a comedy, a tragedy, and has allowed Steve to further design an aural world that is singularly him. That “him” has taken Lacy, who released his first EP almost ten years ago, to the highest of highs: at only 28, he has two songs in the Spotify Billions Club, as well as two Grammy Awards. He has stood alongside his musical peers like Kendrick Lamar and Solange, sells out shows across the globe, and is universally known as a style maverick whose eye for design grows bolder every day.
In a recent cover story, The Cut described Lacy as “potentially being Gen Z’s first rock star,” a big claim in an era of pop girlies, K-Pop kids hunting demons, and country balladeers. On first listen, Oh yeah?undoubtedly – and instantly – takes that potential and turns it into reality, a defining musical moment for an artist with many, many more to come.
Oh yeah? Artwork — download HERE
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[1]From Steve’s Dazed cover story, September 2025
[2] From Steve’s Dazed cover story, September 2025
[3] From Steve’s Rolling Stone cover story, August 2025
[4] From Steve’s Dazed cover story, September 2025
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