Kelela New Avatar SIGNED Purple Vinyl LP Wax Trax In-Store Gatefold Warp NEW For Sale

You are looking at a copy of Kelela\'s new avatar on Purple Colored Vinyl, signed in person by Kelela at her Wax Trax Records in-store signing — with the cover autographed, housed in a gatefold outer sleeve with printed inner sleeve and a 6-panel foldout poster, and now in hand. Released 10 July 2026 on Warp Records under catalogue WARPLP405P, the purple pressing was made exclusive to Kelela\'s official artist store and independent record retailers globally, and Warp now list it as sold out in the UK with only US warehouse stock remaining. Warp\'s own description: \"new avatar is where everything Kelela has been building toward comes into focus. She started writing her first songs in the D.C. indie scene before the club music and electronic production that defined her early career took over. With new avatar, she closes the loop: R&B run through distorted guitar living alongside new intersections in dance music, culminating in a sound that pulls from everywhere she has ever lived musically.\" Kelela on the record: \"My origin story as a songwriter and artist set the context for the catharsis I experienced while making new avatar. I wrote my very first songs in a punk house. The indie scene I was part of provided me with an outlet for genre-defying experiments that illuminated intersections I was hearing in my head. We didn\'t spend tons of time on songs cuz the kids in that scene didn\'t care about nailing it. It took the pressure off and allowed my first vision of myself to blossom. I used a similar approach with this body of work — moving through with a lot of intention while capturing the freedom and spontaneity that inspired my inception as an artist. What you\'re getting with this album is another facet of my world expressed with a new level of conviction, sometimes in the form of love and devotion and other times in the form of rage.\" Twelve tracks, featuring PinkPantheress on \"The Bridge.\"

Artist: Kelela
Album: new avatar
Signed: Yes — Signed in person by Kelela
Signing Location: Wax Trax Records in-store signing
Variant: Purple Colored Vinyl LP
Catalogue: WARPLP405P
Packaging: Gatefold Outer Sleeve — Printed Inner Sleeve — 6-Panel Foldout Poster
Availability: Purple vinyl exclusive to the official artist store and independent record retailers globally
Label: Warp Records
Release Date: 10 July 2026
Runtime: 12 Tracks
Features: PinkPantheress (\"The Bridge\")
UPC: 5056818809347
Condition: NEW
Status: IN HAND — Sold out in UK, US warehouse only at Warp

• Signed in person by Kelela at Wax Trax Records — obtained directly at an in-store signing rather than through a label allocation or a pre-signed insert; event signatures exist only in the quantity signed on the day, cannot be reproduced, and carry provenance that an unattributed autograph does not
• The signature is on the gatefold jacket itself rather than a separate card — Kelela signed copies were never a standard retail configuration for new avatar, so a signed jacket sits entirely outside the normal supply of this pressing
• Purple vinyl, exclusive to the official artist store and independent record retailers worldwide — Warp gated this colourway away from mass retail from the outset, and it has now sold out in the UK with only US warehouse stock remaining; the black LP, the UK-only clear and the CD were the general-availability configurations, making purple the one collectors have to chase
• Gatefold outer sleeve with printed inner sleeve and a 6-panel foldout poster — the poster is exclusive to the vinyl configurations and is one of the more substantial inserts Warp have produced for a single LP release; the CD carries a 16-page booklet instead, so the two formats offer genuinely different printed content
• The album where Kelela closes the loop — Warp frame it as the record that connects her beginnings writing songs in a D.C. punk house to the club music and electronic production that defined her career; the result is R&B run through distorted guitar sitting alongside new intersections in dance music, pulling from everywhere she has ever lived musically
• PinkPantheress features on \"The Bridge,\" one of four tracks given video treatments alongside \"Outta Time,\" \"linknb\" and \"Idea 1\"; Bandcamp buyers have singled out \"point blank\" and \"linknb\" as standouts, with one calling the record \"as good as I both hoped and expected — and Kelela had set a high bar for my hopes and expectations\"
• Follows In the Blue Light (2025), the live album recorded across two nights at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, and RAVE:N, The Remixes (2024) — new avatar is Kelela\'s first studio album since Raven and arrives as the most complete statement of her range to date

• Shipped via USPS Media Mail
• Packed in an LP mailer with the signed cover and poster protected
• Tracking included

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Signed in person by Kelela at Wax Trax Records. Purple vinyl, restricted to the artist store and independent retail worldwide and already sold out in the UK. Gatefold with printed inner sleeve and 6-panel foldout poster. The album Warp call the point where everything Kelela has been building toward comes into focus, with PinkPantheress on \"The Bridge.\" An event signature on the one colourway that never reached mass retail. In hand and available now.