MAVI announced his third album, Shadow Box, due out on August 9. It’s the follow-up to 2022’s great Laughing So Hard It Hurts, and about it, he writes, “I was really sad about the last album. I didn’t really know how to get back into making stuff into the way I like. I felt really hopeless about it, started getting really drunk, dealt with love and heartbreak, having to be there for my family. I had to come back and really learn how to make art all over again. My path back was centered around visual art, fashion, interior design, and design as an artistic framework and as an organizational force in society. A lot of the backbone of the album came from my time with this design book, The Black Experience in Design. The idea I gained from that is design is power. The ability to determine the order of things, the way things are supposed to be…that’s power. The orderliness in the lives of the devoutly religious became an attractive subtext during the creation of this album.”

The first single is the raw, autobiographical “Drunk Prayer,” and you can watch the video, which MAVI directed with Jesse Fox Hallen, below.

MAVI has also announced a Shadow Box tour, which runs through the fall and has him supported by MESSIAH!, Malaya, Pink Siifu, Ovrkast., Chenayder, Vayda, Sideshow, Niontay, Igwe Aka, and Ahmir, varying by show. See all dates below.

The NYC show is at Webster Hall on September 12. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Thursday, June 20 at 10 AM local.

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MAVI: 2024 TOUR DATES
09/07 – Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Music Festival
09/12 – New York City, NY– Webster Hall
09/13 – Washington, D.C. – Howard Theatre
09/14 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
09/17 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
09/18 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmont
09/19 – Toronto, CA – Axis Live/The Opera House
09/20 – Detroit, MI – El Club
09/22 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
09/25 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
09/26 – Omaha, NE – Reverb
09/28 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
09/30 – Denver, CO – Summit
10/02 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
10/04 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
10/05 – Vancouver, CA – Pearl Theatre
10/07 – Portland, OR – The Aladdin
10/09 – Sacramento, CA – Harlows
10/10 – Oakland, CA – The New Parish
10/11 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey/Goldenvoice
10/19 – Phoenix, AZ – Viva PHX Festival
11/08 – Orlando, FL – The Abbey
11/09 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
11/10 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm
11/13 – London, GB – Scala
11/15 – Dublin, IE – The Workman’s Club
11/17 – Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet
11/18 – Paris, FR – La Bellivouise
11/19 – Lisbon, PT – B.Leza
11/22 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
11/23 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
12/03 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
12/04 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
12/05 – Austin, TX – Parish
12/06 – Dallas, TX – Tulips
12/08 – Nashville, TN – The Cannery