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Dinner Party's Watchu Bringing? Is the Group's First Official Album
Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder set an August release date.
Dinner Party will release Watchu Bringing? on August 7 through Empire. The group — Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder — has been building toward this moment across two prior releases, but Watchu Bringing? is the first project described as a full official album rather than an EP or standalone release.
The nine-track record opens with Stop Being Late and closes with Peace of Mind, which gives listeners a rough sense of the album's arc without hearing a note. Lead single If It Ain't Broke (Love Wins) was set to premiere on July 10, making it the earliest confirmed entry point into the new material ahead of the August 7 date.
The visual side of the project has a consistent hand behind it. Amani Washington created the Watchu Bringing? album cover and also made artwork for Dinner Party's earlier releases — the self-titled EP from 2020 and Enigmatic Society from 2023. That continuity suggests the group treats its visual identity as deliberately as its lineup.
For anyone tracking this project, the practical update is straightforward: a confirmed release date, a distributor, a tracklist with nine songs, and a lead single that arrived before the album. What Watchu Bringing? represents structurally — a first album after four years of EPs — is the clearest signal yet that Dinner Party is treating this iteration of the group as something with longer-term intent.