Noga Erez Announces Fourth Album, ‘Duck Season,’ Drops Dark Pop Banger Single ‘People, I Hope You Know the World Is Ending’

Noga Erez has seen the future and it is bleak. But it also has a great, catchy beat. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based singer/rapper laments the spiraling madness of modern life her new single, “People, I hope you know the world is ending,” the first taste of her upcoming fourth studio album, Duck Season.

With her signature wit and laconic vocal style, Erez lists the litany of dumpster fires in the rapped verses on the song on which she laments, “They never stopped delivering all the boxes/ That’s the one thing/ They got you to step outside and see what the bombs did/ On God,” over a loping beat.

She continues cleverly weighing in on the various conflicts in our personal and collective lives with the lines: “Let’s weigh the options/ I think what it comes down to is we do Prozac or chocolate, right?/ You don’t gotta wait for a siren to start runnin’/ You ran, I ran/ Wait, should we just send Baron?/ If we want a happy ending we could just a war with Thailand/ Send the Mossad to get a massage/ Hands up if you were on the island!”

The song then bursts into its soaring, uniting chorus, on which Erez sings, “People, I hope you know the world is ending/ Oh yeah/ Don’t you look so sad/ Oh no/ I hope you know the world is ending/ Oh yeah/ But we’re going down together.”

Duck Season is due out on Feb. 26 through Neon Gold/Atlantic Records and, according to a release announcing the project it, “turns the absurdity of modern life into a sprawling, technicolor spectacle, taking aim at a world where outrage is instantaneous and everyone seems to be fair game. The album’s title takes on the darker implications of open season, a time when shooting first has become instinctive and asking questions is almost beside the point. By the closing track, the target has grown even wider: humanity itself is in the crosshairs.”

The new 14-track LP was recorded alongside Erez’s longtime creative and life partner producer/songwriter Ori Rousso and it promises to take the singer’s fans into a brightly colored world where “candy-coated pop hooks collide with bass-heavy hip-hop, snarling guitars, bursts of brass and even spaghetti-Western drama. Military-style chants and cinematic flourishes add to the album’s larger-than-life atmosphere, while Erez moves effortlessly between swagger and moments of startling vulnerability.”

The album is the follow-up to 2024’s The Vandalist and it features collaborations with Iranian rapper Hichkas and singer/model Cara Delevingne.

Erez will spend the spring and summer on the road on a 2027 North American and European tour slated to kick off on March 10 in Phoenix and run through a July 8 show at Nos Alive in Lisbon, Portugal. An artist presale will begin on Nov. 17 at 10 a.m. local time, with fans encouraged to sign up here. A general onsale will follow on Nov. 20 at 10 a.m. local time.

Listen to “People, I hope you know the world is ending” and see the full list of Erez’s 2027 tour below.

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