Says BBC News.

This pleases me. What a saga. I have to pull out their CDs when I wanted to listen. No big deal at home, but when in the car or traveling it's a pain.

Their continuing absence gave them a strange veneer of unreality, like that non-existent Sinbad movie or the 'missing / changed' ending of the film Big. I downloaded them a few years ago and experienced quite a nostalgic hit, something hard to achieve when most of the pop culture of my life is available nearly instantly.

Donald Fagen will be furious.

Looks like this is really really real real! Vinyl/CD/tape can be pre-ordered from their site now:

https://store.wearedelasoul.com/collections/music

Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa is still the best holiday song ever recorded.

From an email they sent out earlier this month:

“ It’s been a long time coming, but finally “THE DE IS HERE”. Our first six albums will be released digitally for the first time ever on March 3, 2023, on the 34th anniversary of our debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising.

3 Feet High and Rising (1989), De La Soul Is Dead (1991), Buhloone Mindstate (1993), Stakes Is High (1996), Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000), and AOI: Bionix (2001).

Thank YOU for supporting us for the past 34 years. There’s no us without U.”