Stevie Wonder Releases 4 Unvaulted Tracks From ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ Ahead Of 50th Anniversary Tour

Alright, my fellow Stevie Wonder fans, this is not a drill.

If you ask most Stevie fans what the singer, songwriter, musician and music producer’s best album is, they’ll tell you it’s 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life. Well, on Monday, which marks the 50th anniversary of the album that won Album of the Year at the Grammys in ’76, Wonder blessed the world with four unvaulted tracks from recording sessions during the time the album was recorded.

That’s right, y’all: four new Stevie Wonder songs that are actually old Stevie Wonder songs, recorded while he was in the process of recording one of the greatest contributions to modern music in the last half-century.

The four songs—“It’s Easier,” “My Life Story of Love,” “I Can See the Sun in Late December,” and “I’m Into Livin’”— are part of a newly released project named for the original album, titled Songs in the Key of Life: The EP.

“We’ve lived with Songs in the Key of Life for fifty years, but there’s still more to hear,” Wonder said in a press release, according to Pitchfork. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it. They bring me back to that time in my life, and now they get to become part of yours.”

The new release comes as Wonder prepares to kick off a world tour in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the album. According to Rolling Stone, the “Living for the City” artist plans to perform the album in its entirety at each show, which, for a 76-year-old legend, would be a feat considering it’s an album with a nearly 90-minute run time.

It’s unclear if Wonder will also include the four new tracks in his set list, but whether he does or not, this tour is a treat for those of us who have been fans our entire lives and have been listening to that album and others from his catalog since our parents were wearing out the vinyl every Sunday morning while making us do our chores.

The tour kicks off in the U.K. on Oct. 13, and will come to the States in November and December.

Y’all know what to do.

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