New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, Joji teams up with Diplo on a new collaboration called "Daylight," the latest single from his highly anticipated new album Nectar, due out on
September 25 through 88rising, distributed by 12Tone Music. Just in time for the dog days of summer, this midtempo anthem sets Joji's lulling vocals against Diplo's crisp production to create a hazy, shapeshifting aural mirage.
The vibrant music video for "Daylight," directed by Munachi Osegbu (Megan Thee Stallion's "
Hot Girl Summer" video), finds Joji and Diplo tasting the high life of a boy band… as struggling PAs on a 90s music video shoot. The two daydreamers bumble around the set and ultimately derail the shoot of the young (at heart) pop divas.
"
Daylight" is the fourth pre-release track from Nectar. It follows Gold-certified single "
Sanctuary" and his first 2020 single "Run," which earned Joji his highest-ever entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and his television debut on the
Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon; and second single "
Gimme Love" which Complex hailed as "a sticky pop anthem with haunting vocals." Last month, Joji also released a tingly and transformative remix of "
Gimme Love" by Channel Tres.
On the song, Joji says "It might be nice for people to hear a song about daylight, especially when we don't get as much of it as we used to," and on the collaboration, Diplo says "Joji is one of my favorite artists. I'm lucky he answered my text!"
In the "
Daylight" video, the boy band can be seen gathered around a luxuriant table, sipping on Johnnie Walker
Black Label Highball cocktails. Joji grabs the Johnnie Walker
Black Label from the table and makes a run for it, suggesting more to come from Joji and the iconic whisky brand in the near future.
Joji is one of the most enthralling artists of the digital age. He has a total vision for his work, not just in the writing and producing of his music, but artwork, videos, merch, and live performances as well. It's a fully realized world that his fans can inhabit and explore—and see themselves in. "My music is not biographical," he says, but even still, the deep, heavily shaded emotions in his songs are genuine and they speak to anyone who has ever felt stuck on the outside looking in, who knows what it means to not belong. In 2019, Joji sold-out his North
America tour within minutes and performed at some of the most coveted festivals across the world, including Reading & Leeds in the UK and Lollapalooza. As Joji surpasses 4.6 billion global streams, 2020 promises to be his biggest year to date.
Born
Thomas Wesley Pentz, Diplo is one of the most dynamic forces in music today under his own name—he just released a long-awaited country album: Diplo Presents
Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil including the double-Platinum "
Heartless" with
Morgan Wallen—and as a member of the now legendary Major Lazer—whose latest "Lay Your Head On Me" featuring Marcus Mumford is climbing charts worldwide; LSD, the psychedelic supergroup with Sia and
Labrinth whose debut album has been streamed over one billion times; and Silk City with Mark Ronson, whose Platinum-certified "
Electricity" with
Dua Lipa topped charts worldwide and won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. As the world's most in-demand producer, Diplo has worked with artists as disparate as Beyoncé,
Bad Bunny and Turnstile.
PRAISE FOR JOJI:
"One of the greatest transformations in modern pop culture...Joji will make you cry" - ROLLING STONE
"Anthemic .. .cathartic"- PITCHFORK
"
Superstar" - Top40-Charts.com
"Idiosyncratic, complex songs that speak to listeners mired in end times malaise" - TIME
"Extraordinary range and continuous commitment to the elegiac sound he's known for" - HYPEBEAST
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Daylight" is out now via 88rising Records/12Tone Music, LLC/Mad Decent, under license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony
Music Entertainment.
