Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist announce ‘Alfredo II,’ share “1995” & short film

Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist have announced the follow-up to 2020’s fantastic Alfredo. Alfredo II is due out next week, on July 25 via ESGN/ALC. They haven’t unveiled the tracklist yet, but you can see the cover art below.

They’ve shared the first single, “1995,” and the album’s accompanying short film, Alfredo: The Movie, which screened at Los Angeles’ Brain Dead Studios on Wednesday (7/16). It was directed by Nick Walker and filmed on location in Japan, and here’s more about it from the press release:

Equal parts yakuza noir and Ghost Dog, the film casts Gibbs and The Alchemist as partners navigating a seedy, hyper-stylized version of the city’s criminal underground. They’ve traded pasta for noodles, operating out of a humble ramen shop while studying ancient methods of preparation, boiling bones by day and laundering money by night. Alleyway negotiations, back room deals in smoky izakayas, and warrior monk training montages––it’s a bold reintroduction to the duo’s creative universe steeped in noir aesthetics, shadowy criminal underworlds, and razor-sharp bars.

Watch that, and hear “1995” below.