Today releases his brand new album, CAFE PARADISO, via Transgressive Records (listen HERE). Alongside the release, he also shares the energetic focus track “Spread For Me” (listen HERE). 

CAFE PARADISO is an album about stillness, observation and the quiet intensity of being alone in public. “It’s not a point A-to-B record, or a pre-game record”, Blanco says. “It’s an album about enjoying your own company”.

Recorded in New York and shaped in collaboration with longtime creative partner and producer Drew “FaltyDL” Lustman, CAFE PARADISO moves fluidly between styles and scenes, pulling together fragments of dance music, art pop, underground club culture and genre-splicing experimentation into what Blanco describes as a “three-act play” or “a festival album”, citing references as diverse as Saint Etienne, The Silver Apples and Towa Tei.

“I chose to record Café Paradiso in New York because I wanted to come home for a bit,” Blanco explains. “New York is where I ran away to when I was 16… where I first began writing music after dropping out of Parsons School of Design, where I published my first book of poetry, and where I launched my career on the underground scene 13 years ago.”

He continues: “Café Paradiso is a record for city kids. It’s heavily inspired by New York, but the New York of now, which isn’t parochial but transatlantic. Café Paradiso is also global. It’s a series of vignettes that speak to the lives lived inside the concrete jungle.”

CAFE PARADISO does not mark a rupture so much as a refinement in the career of Mykki Blanco. Drawing together years of experimentation across music, performance, and visual art, which has seen him collaborate with artists including Arca, Basement Jaxx, Charli XCX, Jamila Woods, Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu, Michael Stipe, Anohni and Jónsi, this album arrives at a point of transient clarity – it is a confident statement of intent, positioning Blanco not simply as a shape-shifter, but as an artist in full command of his present form.

If Blanco’s catalogue has long been defined by constant reinvention, CAFE PARADISO represents a new kind of clarity. Following 2022’s Stay Close to Music and the 2023 Postcards from Italia EP, Blanco stepped away from recording to pursue a Master in Fine Arts in Switzerland, deepening a multidisciplinary visual art practice before returning to songwriting with renewed focus.

“I love creating music but I’ve never liked the idea of being a one-trick pony”, Blanco explains. “I need to check some things off my ‘Life List.’”

Alongside the release of CAFE PARADISO, Mykki Blanco shares focus track “Spread For Me”, an upfront and wholesome pop-adjacent track that hints at something carnal and epicurean hiding under the surface. 

“Spread For Me” follows the release of latest single “NYC Dogs”, the uncompromising party anthem, “Butt Sex”, and “Little Feet”, which was BBC Radio 6 Music A-Listed and offered the first glimpse into the cosmopolitan, after-hours world of CAFE PARADISO. 

Listen to “Spread For Me” HERE.

Mykki Blanco tours the UK and Europe this October and November, as follows:

Mykki Blanco live dates 2026:

More information and tickets here. 

September:

06 – London, UK – Rough Trade East

October

09 – Bologna, IT – Dumbo 

10 – Prague, CZ – Meet Factory

11 – Berlin, DE – Kantine Am Berghain

14 – Copenhagen, DK – Alice 

15 – Helsinki, FI – Kuudes Linka 

16 – Aarhus, DK – Phono Aarhus 

17 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang

19 – Vienna, AT – Das Werk 

20 – Innsbruck, AT – PMK

21 – St. Gallen, AT – PMK 

22 – Fribourg, CH – Fri-Son 

24 – San Sebastian, ES – Dabadaba 

27 – Paris, FR – Badaboum 

28 – Brussels, BE – Beursschouwburg

30 – Dublin, IE – Soundhouse

31 – London, Moth Club

November

03 – Glasgow – The Hug and Pint

04 – Leeds – Belgrave Music Hall 

05 – Manchester – The Deaf Institute 

06 – Newcastle – Xerox

07 – Bristol – Strange Brew

10 – Brighton – Concorde 2