Brooklyn-based Pakistani-American singer Arooj Aftab, a Grammy Award-winning artist, has announced the release of her latest album, titled ‘Night Reign.’
In a statement issued by the singer, she stated, ““The night is my biggest source of inspiration. The still moments of cover uniquely enable healing, desire, shelter, and love—each essential element of life and living—in intimate relation to one another. Perhaps because its darkness loosens inhibitions or invites new ways of being, enticing all to leave the day as honestly as they entered it, night welcomes play and searching.”
Night Reign (Verve, 2024) is a perfumed, public garden of renewal, peaking the senses with each composition, each turn of phrase, and each modulation. Stepping away from, though never forgetting, the grief and loss that animated her Grammy Award-winning album Vulture Prince (Verve/New Amsterdam, 2021), Arooj Aftab appears here with original music and in yet another form: as a bard of everyday possibility, quietude, and life-altering romance.
Arroj Aftab is among those artists who continue to make uncompromising music. She has been nominated for a Grammy four times, including for Best New Artist. She was the first Pakastani female artist to receive that award. Her songs, sung in Urdu and English, have won her huge fans critically, and her music crosses many genres.
Arooj Aftab is set to perform at the annual Glastonbury Festival, which will take place in the UK from June 26–30.