There was lots of talk about Chic’s new album in the past few years, but we never got a successor to 1992’s Chic-ism. Nile Rodgers announced in 2015 that he has been working with his legendary act Chic on a new album It’s About Time, and it looks like he finally intends to release it in 2018. Speaking with Billboard recently, Rodgers promised that the album will be out in the following months.
“It’s so happening and it’s happening soon, within the next few months.” said Rodgers. “What happened originally is that I released a single in 2015, and obviously when you release the first single it’s designed to start the momentum of the album. The music business, singles are like a trailer for a movie. At least that’s how I’ve always viewed it, and my album is the ‘film.’ It felt great performing it in England so many times, where we had a great tour that year with Duran Duran and wanted to wait until the first few weeks of the year in 2016. Then Bowie passed away days into the year, and I was like ‘Whoa.’”
In case you are wondering how the new album will sound like, you can hear the leading single below. Titled “I’ll Be There,” the song was released back in 2015, and remained the only release from It’s About Time so far.
Nile Rodgers formed Chic in 1976 and immediately found success with disco hits like “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah),” “Everybody Dance,” “Le Freak,” and “I Want Your Love.” The band was cited as influential by numerous music artists and was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inclusion 11 times.
