Ex-Brockhampton head Kevin Abstract announces new album ‘Blush’, shares demo tape of axed tracks

9 June, 2025

Kevin Abstract (Photo credit: Lucas Creighton)

Former Brockhampton member Kevin Abstract has announced a new album, ‘Blush’.

Abstract – who led the acclaimed group Brockhampton until their split in 2022 – has revealed his new album, ‘Blush’. The album, according to the musician, is due for release sometime this month, though a concrete launch date has yet to be announced.

Kevin Abstract first teased ‘Blush’ back in May, when he described the project as a new group with “no finalised members”: “Blush is not a fixed group. There are no permanent members. It is a platform for discovering new possibilities through collaboration. The group is ever-changing and can involve anyone who brings value to the vision: Musicians, photographers, designers, videographers, models, DJs, etc.”

He then went on to label Blush as his “new company”, and wrote that anyone on social media who could help him get an Instagram handle for the project “can hear the album early”.

He’s since seemed to suggest that the project will be a “summer album” with “breakup vibes” – he’s also called it “my new album”, suggesting that while the Blush ethos is still formulated around a group, he will be mastermind-ing the project.

On June 6, Kevin Abstract shared the first preview of ‘Blush’ with the Dominic Fike-featuring track ‘Geezer’, and an accompanying music video. He then said Blush are “basically” like “a new Brockhampton with JPEG and Quadeca and Dom Fike”.

The ‘Blush’ album is “inspired” by Kevin Abstract’s “heroes” like Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Lana Del Rey.

Last night (June 8), Kevin Abstract shared a demo tape on Discord of the songs being left off the ‘Blush’ album – you can check it out here.

In a newly published letter on the ‘Blush’ project, Abstract shared on social media: “I’ve always wanted to make an album like ‘Blush’. In ways I’ve made records like this before but I’ve never produced em at this level of quality when it boils down to storytelling and sonic shaping. Last summer was heavy, awful. I lost the love of my life. It got so bad that I had to leave California. I went back to Texas to link w my day ones. Family, ya know? Ya boy had to slow things downa nd look in the mirror, and be a grown up. Cut the bitch stuff out. I was like, oh, ok. I AM 100% AT MY BEST when I’m directing other artists.”

“When I went to jail over some bullshit out in Conroe, I realised how much I care about my work and my audience. And also how I’ve been [taking] so many things for granted for so long. Not only did I feel guilty, I felt small… This career, this industry, this art-form. My Life… I care a lot. I’m strong. I got us. BLUSH is the way. June 2025.”

Kevin Abstract’s last solo album was 2023’s ‘Blanket’, of which Thomas Smith wrote in a three-star review for NME: “‘Blanket’ feels like another piece of the grand puzzle that is Kevin Abstract, and though it might not be his strongest material – heartfelt, for sure – he remains an alluring figure, a lightning rod for ideas. He is, reliably, never dull.”

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