Kool & the Gang Announce New Album Perfect Union, Share New Song: Listen

“Pursuit of Happiness” arrives with an music video animated by Patrick Smith
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Kool & the Gang’s Ronald “Khalis” Bell, George Brown, Robert “Kool” Bell, and Dennis Thomas, photo courtesy of Omnivore Recordings

Kool & the Gang have announced their first new album since 2011. It’s called Perfect Union, and it arrives August 21 via Omnivore/Ru-Jac Records. Today, they’ve shared the single “Pursuit of Happiness,” along with an animated music video. Check it out below (via Rolling Stone), and scroll down for the album art and tracklist.

Perfect Union was produced by Kool’s brother, the late Ronald Khalis Bell, who died in 2020. “My brother, Khalis, wrote the single ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ around the time of Obama’s second campaign for President,” Kool said in a press release. He continued:

That was such an inspirational time and the hook and music just bolted out of him. That time period was a pretty creative period for him and all of us. Now that he has passed, that name, Perfect Union makes even more sense to me. It’s about us. He used to say we were the koolective genius of a band called Kool & the Gang. We came together as kids and it’s been a perfect union. He knew that.

Read Pitchfork’s list “The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s.”

Perfect Union:

01 Pursuit of Happiness
02 The Weekend
03 Leave It on the Dance Floor
04 High
05 Sexy (Where’d You Get Yours)
06 All to Myself
07 R.O.Y.A.L.T.Y. (Kool & the Gang Mix)
08 Hold On
09 Good Time
10 Pursuit of Happiness (Rap Version)

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