Mahalia is set to release her brand-new, sophomore album titled IRL on July 14th with the pre-order set to go live on May 11th.The album will feature the singles Terms and Conditions, Cheat and In My Bag with album features including Stormzy, JoJo, Joyce Wrice and Kojey Radical.

Aptly titled IRL, Mahalia is particularly incessant on doubling down on vulnerability, internal reflection, and a desire to feel, in the realms of love specifically as demonstrated on her last project. I feel like theres even more personality on IRL. I want people to see me how I see myself. Emboldened by her inflections, insights and young adulthood, Mahalia is not only breaking the mould on IRL, but determined to live life cognizantly. This is a real reflection of the journeys I’ve had, what actually happened and a celebration of everyone who got me there. There are names and family members I mention because it all helped in shaping who I am, Mahalia rationalises. With an innocent, yet assured gleam appearing on her face, Im so proud of this project, and so proud of how much I challenged myself to just let those stories out.

Christened in many Grammy, BRIT, Soul Train and MTV Push nominations over the years, as well as two MOBO-wins for Best Female Act, and Best R&B/Soul Act, Mahalia still proves that beyond the accolades, an overarching dedication to persistence is whats driven her to look inward, grow and ultimately challenge herself with each and every release to date. Standing as one of British R&Bs most successful contemporary faces, Mahalia continues to grow and establish herself in both her tact as an artist, but in building more robust ruminations sonically. As she evolves, her success becomes even more bonafide, both on home turf, but abroad too (shes cracked the US Adult R&B Charts three times to date).

With her legion of 3.3M monthly Spotify listeners, the penultimate Saturday slot on the West Holts stage at this years Glastonbury festival and an opener performance for Adele at Hyde Park last summer, as well as a stellar prime-time Commonwealth Games closing ceremony set, theres more territory to break. Im almost glad Love and Compromise didnt go completely sky high, its given me room to keep developing, keep growing and go higher than Ive ever been before. Im so ready to bridge the gap now, I feel like Im absolutely playing the long-game.