Yoko Ono and Her Plastic Ono Band Announce New LP

Whether you love her avant-garde artistic works, or are still bitter about how she “broke up the Beatles,” it’s indisputable that Yoko Ono continues to produce compelling performance, musical, and visual art at eighty years old, with no signs of slowing down. The activist and performer is most recently noted for curating this year’s London Meltdown Festival  which featured acts from names like Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Peaches, and many more.

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The artist’s latest project is the completion of a brand new LP. Yoko Ono and her Plastic Ono Band are set to release Take Me to the Land of Hell this September, a collection of songs which follows in the style of the band’s 2009 album Between My Head and the Sky. The LP was produced by Ono, as well as with help from her son Sean Lennon, and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto. The LP will feature remixes from ?uestlove, Nels Cline of Wilco, and Beastie Boys’ Mike D, among others.

In a press release for the LP Ono muses, “This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” With the upcoming release of Take Me to the Land of Hell, it seems as though Yoko Ono is just as ambitious and artistically inspired as ever.

You can listen to one of the album’s tracks, “Moonbeams,” to get a preview of the LP, and find more information about the release at Pitchfork.