Nikki Nack by TuneYards

Nikki Nack, the third Tune-Yards album, came out on 4AD in May 2014, and Merrill Garbus and bassist Nate Brenner made it with producers John Hill and Malay. The Oakland project's signature tools are all still here, looped vocals, clattering lo-fi percussion and a restless magpie ear, but the sound is bigger, brighter and more rhythmically wild, a carnival of chants, drums and elastic bass.

Garbus teased it on March 3 with a megamix of its tracks posted to her website, and "Water Fountain" followed as the first single on March 18: a stomping, playground-chant romp that became the record's calling card and was later picked up for a Google Pixel ad campaign in 2016. It came after Whokill and was followed by I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.

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