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Track List
01) Wildflowers
02) Elevate
03) Happy People
04) Light Years
05) We All Win
06) Poolside
07) 30 Something
08) Just Dive
09) Jupiter
10) All of Me
11) Better Days
01) Wildflowers
02) Elevate
03) Happy People
04) Light Years
05) We All Win
06) Poolside
07) 30 Something
08) Just Dive
09) Jupiter
10) All of Me
11) Better Days
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3:05
3:20
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First Released
2025
R&B
Enlightened
Urban/R&B
Girl
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Nao released her debut album, 2016’s For All We Know, to universal acclaim, but it was her 2018 follow-up effort, Saturn, that saw the stars truly align for the Nottingham-born, East London-raised singer-songwriter. Drawing inspiration from the tumult of her first Saturn return—a concept astrologers explain as a transitional life stage that recurs every 27 years or so—the record was a Mercury Prize- and Grammy Award-nominated triumph. Jupiter, the de facto sequel to Saturn, picks up with Nao seven years, two children and one life-changing diagnosis later. Much has changed. “When I wrote Saturn I was in my Saturn return and going through a difficult time because I had gone through a breakup, and then I got an autoimmune condition called chronic fatigue syndrome,” she tells Apple Music. “I became a mother in that time, so that seven- or eight-year period was really difficult because I was ill for most of it. I went on a big healing journey and mostly recovered. And I felt like when I came to make this album and I saw that Jupiter was the planet of joy, growth and good fortune, I was like, ‘You know what? I feel like after everything I’ve been through and come out the other end, I feel like Jupiter is the perfect way to symbolise that.’ So it is the sister album to Saturn, I would say.”
Nao first felt the “itch” to get back in the studio two years after the release of her third album, And Then Life Was Beautiful (2021). By her own admission, “the tunes were basically not very good,” and it took another year for her to find her rhythm again. “I was just out of practice,” she says. “I didn’t know what the theme was when I started writing, but I knew I was ready to start trying. That’s a really important part of creativity—you don’t need to have the full plan, you just follow your ideas through and see what happens, and usually it all falls into place. Once the engine got going, all these records were written in quite a short space of time.”
Jupiter may owe its thematic identity to the cosmos, but the radiant, sun-drenched energy infused in every beat and harmony comes from a purely terrestrial source. “I was recovering from my autoimmune condition when this record finally started coming together, and being in the sun was a really important part of that,” Nao says. “I moved to LA with my partner and my kids for six months, and I ended up doing a lot of the work there. I created the vibe with LOXE and Stint, who I’ve worked with before on all my previous records, and I would just invite musicians and songwriters to come in throughout the days.”
Weaving those cohesive threads into contributions from a host of new collaborators—among them Toby Gad, the songwriter behind hits for superstars including Beyoncé and John Legend—has resulted in Nao’s most self-assured body of work to date. Effervescent pop songs like “Happy People” and the cool, sparkling groove of “Poolside” blend seamlessly with the open-hearted lyricism of “30 Something” or the exquisitely minimal balladry of “Light Years”. Even “Elevate”, which leans more towards the neo-soul/R&B soundscape of previous records, has been spiked with something fresh—an electrifying guitar solo that marks the track as a highlight in an album packed full of them. The unifying factor tying this “eclectic, but consistent” package together, of course, is Jupiter itself. As Nao explains: “ this album to find anybody that wants hope at the end of struggle. Something really cool about Jupiter is that it’s usually the planet you can see when you look up to the moon—it’s visible, so it’s always kind of hovering around us. I like the idea that we can just look up and know that good things are quite close by—we just have to keep going.”
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Nao released her debut album, 2016’s For All We Know, to universal acclaim, but it was her 2018 follow-up effort, Saturn, that saw the stars truly align for the Nottingham-born, East London-raised singer-songwriter. Drawing inspiration from the tumult of her first Saturn return—a concept astrologers explain as a transitional life stage that recurs every 27 years or so—the record was a Mercury Prize- and Grammy Award-nominated triumph. Jupiter, the de facto sequel to Saturn, picks up with Nao seven years, two children and one life-changing diagnosis later. Much has changed. “When I wrote Saturn I was in my Saturn return and going through a difficult time because I had gone through a breakup, and then I got an autoimmune condition called chronic fatigue syndrome,” she tells Apple Music. “I became a mother in that time, so that seven- or eight-year period was really difficult because I was ill for most of it. I went on a big healing journey and mostly recovered. And I felt like when I came to make this album and I saw that Jupiter was the planet of joy, growth and good fortune, I was like, ‘You know what? I feel like after everything I’ve been through and come out the other end, I feel like Jupiter is the perfect way to symbolise that.’ So it is the sister album to Saturn, I would say.”
Nao first felt the “itch” to get back in the studio two years after the release of her third album, And Then Life Was Beautiful (2021). By her own admission, “the tunes were basically not very good,” and it took another year for her to find her rhythm again. “I was just out of practice,” she says. “I didn’t know what the theme was when I started writing, but I knew I was ready to start trying. That’s a really important part of creativity—you don’t need to have the full plan, you just follow your ideas through and see what happens, and usually it all falls into place. Once the engine got going, all these records were written in quite a short space of time.”
Jupiter may owe its thematic identity to the cosmos, but the radiant, sun-drenched energy infused in every beat and harmony comes from a purely terrestrial source. “I was recovering from my autoimmune condition when this record finally started coming together, and being in the sun was a really important part of that,” Nao says. “I moved to LA with my partner and my kids for six months, and I ended up doing a lot of the work there. I created the vibe with LOXE and Stint, who I’ve worked with before on all my previous records, and I would just invite musicians and songwriters to come in throughout the days.”
Weaving those cohesive threads into contributions from a host of new collaborators—among them Toby Gad, the songwriter behind hits for superstars including Beyoncé and John Legend—has resulted in Nao’s most self-assured body of work to date. Effervescent pop songs like “Happy People” and the cool, sparkling groove of “Poolside” blend seamlessly with the open-hearted lyricism of “30 Something” or the exquisitely minimal balladry of “Light Years”. Even “Elevate”, which leans more towards the neo-soul/R&B soundscape of previous records, has been spiked with something fresh—an electrifying guitar solo that marks the track as a highlight in an album packed full of them. The unifying factor tying this “eclectic, but consistent” package together, of course, is Jupiter itself. As Nao explains: “ this album to find anybody that wants hope at the end of struggle. Something really cool about Jupiter is that it’s usually the planet you can see when you look up to the moon—it’s visible, so it’s always kind of hovering around us. I like the idea that we can just look up and know that good things are quite close by—we just have to keep going.”
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