Wake The Dead And Whiteley and more stripped-back sound than

and more stripped-back sound than some of his previous work — the polished

all infused with a sense of spontaneity and exploration

and the band’s signature odd‑meter shifts are all on display

The album reflects the spirit of the early 1980s music scene

Wake The Dead And Whiteley and more stripped-back sound thanWake the Dead is the fourteenth solo studio album by California rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, released on October 25, 2024 via Yep Roc Records in collaboration with Qiensave?, a cumbia urbana band from Salinas, California. The album grew directly out of Prophet's experience with a stage four lymphoma diagnosis in 2022, during which he found comfort and joy attending cumbia nights at clubs in San Francisco's Mission District while undergoing cancer