Chlöe dropped her sophomore album Trouble in Paradise on Friday (Aug. 9) via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records.
“Songs from my diary, inspired by my favorite island,” she wrote on Instagram Thursday.
According to her recent HelloBeautiful cover story, Trouble in Paradise was recorded and mastered in St. Lucia. “I can walk around with no makeup, I can walk around loving my body, I can go to the ocean, truly just pray to God and thank Him for the blessings that I have. And it reminds me that life isn’t all about what my career is. It’s not about outer validation, but the inner peace,” she told the publication. “I just really wanted people to feel the peace and the love that this place has brought me, where it was able to open up my creative mind and my creative spirit to literally write my troubles away in paradise. And the album feels like what a summer fling feels like, the back and forth of it, the highs, the lows, the love.”
The 16-track project includes features with Ty Dolla $ign (“Might As Well”), Anderson .Paak (“Favorite”), YG Marley (“Never Let You Go”), her sister Halle (“Want Me”) and Jeremih (“Shake”) as well as previously released singles, “FYS” and “Boy Bye.” Chlöe also hopped on the remixes of Nigerian singer-songwriter Qing Madi’s “Vision” and Tinashe‘s Rhythmic Airplay No. 7 hit “Nasty” this year.
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“It’s what a summer fling feels and tastes like,” she told Billboard of the album on the red carpet at the 2024 BET Awards. She also revealed the inspiration behind the LP’s production: “I have been obsessed with the Caribbean, so definitely Afrobeats-inspired, island vibes. That’s what I’ve been inspired by, so you’ll definitely hear some little nuances of that in there.”
Trouble in Paradise arrives more than a year after her solo debut album, In Pieces. The 14-track LP included collaborations with Chris Brown (“How Does It Feel”), Missy Elliott (“Told Ya”) and Future (“Cheatback”). The set reached No. 119 on the Billboard 200 and No. 17 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
Listen to Trouble in Paradise below.
