Rockie Rode Sets Babylon for 13 December

Rockie Rode will release a new album, Babylon, on December 13. The record is the second album from the project, which is the musical name of Cate Osborne. Pitchfork reported the release date and details on 12 November.

The album is due through AM Radio and runs to nine tracks. The full list is Diana, My Rider, Orlando, Concrete Cowboy, It Is What It Is, How Did I Get It So Wrong, Barbed Wire, My Way or the Highway, and the title track, Babylon. Each song is a full piece of the record, so listeners who want the whole set will need to wait until the album arrives.

Two songs have already come out ahead of the album. "Concrete Cowboy" is the album's single, the track a musician releases first to introduce a full record. Its music video was directed by Joe Endo, the person who shapes how a video is filmed and edited. Rockie Rode has also shared "How Did I Get It So Wrong," another song from Babylon.

Releasing singles before an album is a common way for artists to give listeners a first sample. It also gives the label and the artist several weeks of attention before the full record is out. For Babylon, that window runs from the first single to the release on 13 December.

Fans who want to hear the album in full will be able to do so from that date. Anyone new to the project can start with "Concrete Cowboy" or "How Did I Get It So Wrong" and work through the rest of the tracklist once the record is available.

For the moment, the facts are simple. Babylon is coming on 13 December, it has nine songs, and two of them are already out for listeners to hear.