Irreversible Entanglements announce new album ft Helado Negro & MOTHERBOARD: hear 2 tracks

Irreversible Entanglements have announced their fifth album, Future Present Past, which will be out March 27 via Impulse! Records. The band — Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother), Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, Keir Neuringer and Tcheser Holmes — recorded it at Van Gelder Studio and features frequent collaborator MOTHERBOARD on five songs and Helado Negro on two. They write:

The weight of a certain world can feel cruel and unusual. Another world uplifts. We form as five and transform into billions. Billions of us on this planet sharing this journey through existence—futures full of possibility and potential, the present with all its anxieties and uncertainties, pasts as wellsprings of ancestral wisdom and histories’ warnings.

This album is five standing on the shoulders of legions. The healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing, and balancing the frequencies of this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.

We assume our role in this music as messengers, continuing in the tradition’s long march along the arc of the universe. Freedom fighters telling us not to lose our heads amidst imposed chaos. It is our duty to vibrate higher, beyond the noise, above the hype, away from the novelty, over the walls, across the borders: to keep going.

The spirit moves us to sing these fight songs, to sing fight songs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going, together we overcome.

You can listen to two of the MOTHERBOARD collabs, “Don’t Lose Your Head” and “Vibrate Higher,” below.

Irreversible Entanglements have live dates scheduled for the spring, including NYC’s Knockdown Center on March 26 which is a co-release show with Shabaka that also has Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet) on the bill. All dates are below.

Future Present Past
1. Juntos Vencemos (feat. Helado Negro)
2. Don’t Lose Your Head (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
3. Vibrate Higher (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
4. Panamanian Fight Song
5. We Know (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
6. Hold On (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
7. Keep Going (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
8. The Messenger
9. The Spirit Moves
10. We Overcome (feat. Helado Negro)

Irreversible Entanglements – 2026 Tour Dates
Thursday, March 26th – Queens, NY – Knockdown Center (co-release show with Shabaka)
Friday, March 27th – Philadelphia, PA – Solar Myth
Saturday, March 28th – Philadelphia, PA – Solar Myth
Friday May 1st – Turin, IT – Torino Jazz Festival
Saturday May 2nd – Cagliari, IT – Teatro Massimo
Tuesday May 5th – Innsbruck, AT – Treibhaus
Wednesday May 6th – Antwerp, BE – De Roma
Thursday May 7th – Liege, BE – Jazz à Liège