Major Lazer Returns with Mixtape, ‘GYALGEBRA’

Major Lazer continue their highly anticipated new chapter with a new mixtape, GYALGEBRA, out now from Mad Decent. The first self-contained body of work from Major Lazer in five years, GYALGEBRA marks the official debut of Major Lazer’s “First Lady,” America Foster. The DJ crew’s first-ever in-house vocalist features on five tracks, including lead single “BRUK DOWN” (alongside Parris Goebel and SadBoi) and the ’90s dancehall-inspired solo showcase “Peppa Pot.”

Recorded largely in Jamaica at Diplo’s new studio sanctuary, Pompey, GYALGEBRA is a return to the outsider dancehall energy and unpredictable genre mash-ups of the group’s upstart early days, when anthems like “Pon De Floor” and “Watch Out For This (Bumaye)” literally ran the world. Across its nine tracks, GYALGEBRA lays the blueprint for a new era of Major Lazer — one in which the group centers America’s considerable vocal talents, while remaining as collaborative, musically unpredictable, and stylistically ravenous as ever.

Guest features on GYALGEBRA include Dominican iconoclast Tokischa, elusive Miami icon DJ Chipman, Toronto it-girl SadBoi, New Zealand-born choreographer-turned-artist Parris Goebel, and Jamaican dancehall stalwart Busy Signal. A pair of stars from Trinidad & Tobago, soca legend Bunji Garlin and zess queen Lady Lava, round out the vocal features, while Amsterdam-based DJ/producer Kybba contributes production on the Busy Signal-led shatta dancehall single “GANGSTA.”

Dancehall, drill, shatta, zess, dembow, soca, bouyon, Miami jook and funk carioca are a few of the genres and inspirations rolled up into the GYALGEBRA sound. “Jump & Twist” highlights the connection between Miami and Brazil, with a rare feature from DJ Chipman, whose call-and-response dance anthems “Peanut Butter & Jelly” and “Ice Cream and Cake” defined the sound of Miami jook. “Peppa Pot” is a ’90s-style dancehall track which takes inspiration from one of that era’s most inimitable voices, Red Rat. Tracks like “BRUK DOWN” and “Pendulum” defy easy categorization, blending America Foster’s bad gyal dancehall chat with unorthodox electronic production.

America Foster is a British-Jamaican artist, content creator, comedian, sometimes model, and all-around entertainer who was working as a security guard in London when she connected with Diplo in 2024. Blown away, he invited her to his studio in Jamaica to record what would become “BRUK DOWN” last October, and enlisted her as a full-fledged Major Lazer member earlier this year, beginning with a series of live performances across Europe this summer.

Having only freestyled as a party trick previously, America has honed her skills in the studio with Diplo and the Lazer crew to define a new era for the iconic, multi-platinum and diamond-charting music juggernaut, quickly impressing fans through electrifying freestyles on Capital XTRA and Apple Music Radio. Her viral Capital XTRA freestyle on “GANGSTA” alongside Busy Signal was even turned into an official remix as part of a remix pack issued in September. The title GYALGEBRA references the addition of America, as both the group’s first woman member and a new force amplifying the group’s powers exponentially.

Fans can expect to see more America Foster and Major Lazer soon as she joins the group on upcoming tour dates, which include a return to Coachella — ten years after the group’s last appearance in the desert — on April 12th and 19th, 2026, and a headlining set at Ultra Music Festival in March. The group are set to inaugurate their GYALGEBRA era with an album release block party happening December 4th during Art Basel Week in Miami.

After a brief live performance hiatus, Major Lazer returned to the road this summer, rolling out new music in unconventional ways—like premiering tracks on Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 3 stream, hosting studio sessions on Twitch, and popping up for surprise live shows at college fraternities in the USA and public spaces in Europe like the Grand-Place in Brussels and the Shoreditch High Street tunnel in London, where they premiered “GANGSTA” with Busy Signal in August. More major festival announcements and new releases from Major Lazer are imminent.

Major Lazer ‘GYALGEBRA’ album artwork