Independent R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Wrice has announced that her new EP, Motive, will arrive next Friday, October 7th. The EP is available to pre-order/pre-save now HERE.
The highly anticipated announcement arrives with the release of her official video for Motive lead single “Iced Tea” produced by frequent collaborator KAYTRANADA. The Kill Bill and Anime-inspired visual, directed by Xavier Tera, pays homage to Wrice’s Japanese heritage and showcases her innate dancing and acting skills.
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut album Overgrown, the experimental Motive EP finds the current Proud Family theme song vocalist expanding the range and depths of her sound while reuniting with multiple GRAMMY Award winner KAYTRANADA — who produced three of the five tracks on the project — in addition to multi-platinum producer Kaelin Ellis (Lupe Fiasco, Sango, KAYTRANADA), Nigerian record producer Osinachi Nwaneri (Ciara, Tinashe, Lil Wayne) and rising R&B artist Mack Kaene (ESTA). Joyce contributes her signature sweet songwriting to each of the EP’s songs and has enlisted a who’s who list of today’s finest R&B co-writers such as Trey Campbell (Giveon, H.E.R., John Legend), Miraa May (Jorja Smith, Rico Nasty, Mahalia), and Mack Kaene (UMI, ESTA, Destin Conrad).
“In between coming off of my debut album and brainstorming ideas for my sophomore album, I was motivated to create an EP that the world could dance to,” shares Wrice. “This new project is experimental, fun, carefree, and sexy. After ‘Overgrown,’ I was inspired to be free-spirited and to let loose and during this process I was consistently asking myself, ‘what’s your motive?’”