RJD2 Goes Rap Free

Not quite the same as Moby deciding to go internet and email free for 2006, RJD2 has decided to go rap free on his forthcoming yet untitled third album. Instead of the sample based hip-hop/electronica of previous albums, the new album will be a depature for RJD2, with live instrumentation played entirely by himself. According to Pitchfork, RJD2 wants to make pop music, noting the desire to create "The same shit everybody listens to: the Beatles, your Led Zeppelins, your Tears for Fears. And there are new groups: Elliott Smith or Dungen or Queens of the Stone Age. These are all groups that I feel make-- at the end of the day-- pop music. They do it with their own flavor and their own thing."

With this new direction, RJD2 will also be leaving his current label home, Def Jux, and move over to XL Recordings, home of M.I.A., Tapes and Tapes, Thom Yorke, Basement Jaxx, Ratatat, etc. While no official release date has made, expect the record to drop sometime between February and April of next year.