Before André 3000 was floating through soundscapes with his flute on New Blue Sun—which earned a 2025 Grammy nod for Album of the Year—he had another idea in the vault: stripped-down, meditative piano tracks.

That vision just dropped in the form of 7 Piano Sketches, a brand-new instrumental album that takes the same freeform energy of New Blue Sun and translates it to the keys. The seven-track project was actually born nearly a decade ago, when André was posted up in Texas with his son in a bare-bones spot—just a piano, two beds, and a couple of screens. No distractions. Just vibes.

The tracklist is as follows:

1. bluffing in the snow
2. and then one day you’ll …
3. when you’re a ant and you wake up in an awesome mood, about to drive your son to school, only to discover that you left the lights on in the car last night so your battery is drained
4. hotel lobby pianos
5. blueberry mansions
6. off rhythm laughter
7. i spend all day waiting for the night

7 Piano Sketches offers a quiet kind of brilliance—no raps, no hooks, just André 3000 letting his fingers do the talking.

Stream the album below.