Singer Martin Luther McCoy to Release New Album “Welcome Back Love” on July 17th, 2026 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!
Martin Luther McCoy Announces Welcome Back Love,
A Soul-Bearing New Album Shaped by Time, Loss, and Renewal, Out July 17th
Lead Single “Peace of Mind” and New Video Introduce a Project
Rooted in Love, Truth, and the Full Inheritance of Black American Music
Martin Luther McCoy has spent decades building a body of work that resists easy categorization. A singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor, producer, and multidisciplinary artist, McCoy has moved between worlds with unusual fluency – touring with The Roots, collaborating with artists including Erykah Badu and Saul Williams, appearing in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, taking on the role of Jojo in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, performing with SFJAZZ Collective, and co-founding Moon Medicin, a multidisciplinary performance project that blends music, visual art, and ritual.
Now, McCoy returns with Welcome Back Love, his first full-length album in 14 years, due out Friday, July 17th. Alongside the announcement, he has released the official video for the album’s lead single, “Peace of Mind,” a quietly powerful song about endurance, recalibration, and holding onto purpose while life unfolds on its own terms.
“Peace of Mind,” which won the 2025 Gospel Choice Music Award in the Gospel Afrobeats category, serves as a fitting entry point into the larger arc of the album. It grew out of what McCoy describes as the psychic strain of waiting, pivoting, and trying to keep faith through uncertainty. The new video underscores that emotional terrain, bringing the song’s sense of perseverance and inner stillness into sharp visual focus.
If Welcome Back Love feels lived-in, it is because it is.
The album arrives after years shaped by marriage, loss, responsibility, and time. It carries the weight of a long independent path – one defined by total commitment, but also by the burden of having to build and sustain so much on his own. For McCoy, that meant writing, producing, shaping, releasing, and carrying the full weight of the work himself. That independence created freedom, but it also made the road longer, heavier, and at times isolating. The work never stopped. It simply unfolded on its own terms.
And yet Welcome Back Love does not dwell in exhaustion. It reaches for something steadier.
Alongside the music, McCoy’s creative practice extends into visual and physical forms – painting, clothing, masks, and instrument design – an extension of the same impulse to build rather than wait. As he has said, “I didn’t have room enough to put art on my walls so I put it on my clothes.” His art is lived in, worn, and carried, part of a larger vision that makes him difficult to reduce to any single lane.
For all its personal weight, Welcome Back Love also feels like an opening – a return to the record business, to his audience, and to a mode of expression he believes the culture has drifted from. Taken together, the songs reflect his long-held belief in music’s ability to heal, challenge, and reconnect.
For Martin Luther McCoy, that has always been the work.
Welcome Back Love finds him stepping forward with renewed intention – presenting his voice, his history, and his vision with unusual clarity. After decades of building, surviving, searching, and recommitting, he remains devoted to the same core idea that first shaped him:
sound as communion,
sound as medicine,
sound as a way through.
Welcome Back Love arrives July 17th via Rebel Soul Records.
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