Sudan Archives Unleashes “MS. PAC MAN” from Upcoming Album THE BPM, Out October 17 on Stones Throw

Sudan Archives Unleashes “MS. PAC MAN” from Upcoming Album THE BPM, Out October 17 on Stones Throw

Sudan Archives photo credit Yanran Xiong

GRAMMY®-winning visionary Sudan Archives is turning up the volume on her next era with the release of “MS. PAC MAN,” a wildly irreverent, free-spirited track accompanied by a playful new music video. The song is the latest preview from her highly anticipated third album, THE BPM, arriving October 17 via Stones Throw Records.

A celebration of spontaneity, “MS. PAC MAN” captures the album’s unfiltered energy and genre-bending freedom. Crafted in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit, THE BPM is deeply personal—Sudan took the reins as executive producer and collaborated with a tight-knit circle of family and friends to bring it to life.

While much of THE BPM digs into weightier themes—mental health, self-love, and heartbreak—“MS. PAC MAN” is pure, unapologetic chaos. Sudan shares, “My cousin Taylor was like, all you write about is love, sometimes I want to be toxic – I want to hear stupid shit. Eric, her husband, was playing this beat, and Taylor was like ‘PUT IT IN MY MOUTH’ and I was like, oh God, that’s so funny – ‘AND MY BANK ACCOUNT!’”

With THE BPM, Sudan Archives cements her evolution as a fearless artist, showing that following your instincts is the ultimate creative power move. Her first two records reached into the past—2019’s Athena cast her as both goddess and muse, while 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen told a punky, coming-of-age story. This time, she’s building a chrome-plated vision of the future, one where everyone moves to their own beat. As she declares on the album’s title track: “The BPM is the power.”

The project also reveals a new clarity in her artistry. “This album just feels really homemade,” Sudan explains. “It felt really wholesome to be able to have fun and use my family members’ lyrics and work together. We used to write songs together all the time when we were younger, we used to praise dance together in church…so it was really cute to be able to do this now.”

THE BPM has already made waves with its early singles: “DEAD,” praised by The New York Times as a “shape-shifting, maximalist, ultimately unstoppable track” and featured in Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2025 Haute Couture show at Paris Fashion Week; “MY TYPE,” dubbed “an especially clever and funny banger” by The Needle Drop; and “YEA YEA YEA,” which Paste hailed as “impossibly dramatic and divine… a fucking bop.”

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THE BPM tracklist

1. DEAD
2. COME AND FIND YOU
3. YEA YEA YEA
4. TOUCH ME
5. A BUG’S LIFE
6. THE NATURE OF POWER
7. MY TYPE
8. SHE’S GOT PAIN
9. DAVID & GOLIATH
10. A COMPUTER LOVE
11. THE BPM
12. MS. PAC MAN
13. LOS CINCI
14. NOIRE
15. HEAVEN KNOWS

SUDAN ARCHIVES TOUR DATES:

Sep 7 – Durham, NC – Duke University

Sep 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Under The K Bridge w/ TV On the Radio

Sep 26 – Austin, TX – Levitation

Nov 7 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room Festival

Nov 27 – Berlin, DE – Betonhalle

Nov 29 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso

Nov 30 – Brussels, BE – Botanique – Orangerie

Dec 1 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon

Dec 3 – London, UK – The Roundhouse

Dec 4 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2

Dec 5 – Leeds, UK – Stylus

Dec 6 – Glasgow, UK – QMU

Dec 8 – Dublin, IE – The Academy

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Links:

Official: https://sudanarchives.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sudanarchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sudanarchives/