Kenny Beats announces his debut solo album, LOUIE, on XL Recordings.

Though best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the worlds most exciting artists (including Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty and Denzel Curry), on LOUIE Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to his ailing father.

In fact LOUIE was never meant for the world’s ears.

While quarantined in Bath, England, thousands of miles from home, Kenny Beats received cataclysmic news. With bleak energy looming in the air due to the sorrow of a breakup compounded by the isolation of COVID, a UK trip to produce for IDLES offered an escape: the opportunity to produce for his favourite rock