PRINCESS NOKIA

Re-Releases

‘Metallic Butterfly’

(Remastered and Expanded)

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PRINCESS NOKIA has re-released a remastered and expanded version of her 2014 debut full length album ‘Metallic Butterfly’ via Rough Trade Records; featuring three bonus tracks from the era. Before the rapper/actress/model/intersectional feminist became the icon she is today, Destiny Frasqueri was a young trip-hop and Bjork-obsessed NYC raver kid. The album showcases all sides of what we’ve now come to know as the definitive multi-faceted artist PRINCESS NOKIA; music lover, philosopher, activist and anime nerd. The music was composed entirely with hip-hop producer OWWWLS, who also worked closely with her on ‘1992 Deluxe’ and has been her current live DJ.

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Vice called the album “one of the most exciting and ambitious independently released albums to come out of the New York underground in a long time.”

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Complex adds, “we’re treated to her raw, but emotionally-rich talent as a vocalist on Butterfly… It’s clear this girl’s talents are vast.”

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‘Metallic Butterfly’ (Remastered & Expanded) features some of the enduring hits that are part of her live show, such as the pumped-up, drum-n-bass love song ‘Dragons’; the Afro-Latina pride anthem ‘Corazon En Afrika’; and the empowering mantra ‘Young Girls’. These fan favourites and more are finally available on streaming services for the first time.

The shape-shifting emcee has been releasing music via YouTube and Soundcloud since she was in high school and catapulted herself to the next level with ‘1992 Deluxe’ — selling out venues across the globe and steadily gaining tens of millions of streams. Earlier this year, she released ‘A Girl Cried Red’; her mixtape showcasing another fully formed side of Destiny that still taps into the uncompromising feminist ideology of PRINCESS NOKIA.

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When ‘Metallic Butterfly’ was originally released in 2014, Destiny wrote this handwritten letter. 

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