Mykki Blanco today releases new single “NYC Dogs”, the third track taken from his forthcoming album, CAFE PARADISO, out on 4 September 2026 via Transgressive Records (presave/order HERE).

Bursting with kinetic, funk-infused energy, “NYC Dogs”, which features as a First Play with Lauren Laverne today on BBC Radio 6, serves as another perfect example of Mykki at his most playful, charismatic and fiercely self assured. Propelled by the gritty crunch of overdriven electric guitar chords, the track expertly blends instrumental unpolished garage rock grit with enthusiastic blues rhythm, with Blanco commanding listeners to “stick out [their] tongues” like the “bad dogs” they are, and repeatedly invoking the city which inspired and helped actualise this project. 

“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.”

“NYC Dogs” follows the release of the uncompromising party anthem, “Butt Sex”, and “Little Feet”, which currently sits on the BBC Radio 6 Music A-List and offered the first glimpse into the cosmopolitan, after-hours world of CAFE PARADISO. 

Listen to “NYC Dogs” HERE and watch the video below.