About “iridescence”

iridescence is BROCKHAMPTON’s fourth studio album and serves as part one of their THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES trilogy.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums charts. This is the group’s first number one album with their previous chart peak being number fifteen with SATURATION III.

In December of 2017, BROCKHAMPTON teased that SATURATION III would be the group’s final studio album. However, the day before was the album was released, the band announced that their next album, TEAM EFFORT, would be coming in 2018.

TEAM EFFORT was then postponed. Instead, their fourth studio album, titled PUPPY, was set for release in June 2018. However, PUPPY was also postponed because of the situation around Ameer Vann.

On May 12, a series of sexual misconduct allegations came out against Ameer Vann. Prior to this, the band members had deactivated their social media accounts, as a promotional stunt for the album. Therefore, most of the group’s members did not officially respond to these allegations for weeks – however, Ameer Vann took to Twitter to address the allegations, admitting to some and disputing others.

On May 23, Kevin went on Instagram live, to address the Ameer allegations and announce that PUPPY would be pushed back. On May 27, the band officially responded to the allegations through Twitter. They announced that Ameer would no longer be a part of BROCKHAMPTON. This eventually led to TEAM EFFORT and PUPPY getting scrapped.

However, on August 26th, 2018, the group unexpectedly announced their new album via Twitter. On August 30th, 2018, in an interview with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 the boys announced that they’re recording the album entirely from scratch in only 10 days at the legendary Abbey Road recording studio in London.

On September 13th, 2018 the group shared the official release date of September 21st, 2018, the cover art, and the official tracklist in a post from their official Twitter. It was also announced that iridescence is part one of THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES trilogy.

A week after the announcement of the release date, the band released a music video for the first single, “J'OUVERT.”

At midnight on September 21st, 2018, a livestream appeared on BROCKHAMPTON’s official YouTube channel with a countdown reading 21 hours and a globe with New Zealand and other eastern nations lit up in iridescent colors. This signified that the album had been released in those areas. The timer counted backward, with other countries lighting up as it hit midnight in that timezone.