Kool and The Gang has set the release date for their 26th studio album, People Just Wanna Have Fun. Led by the single, “Let’s Party,” Kool and The Gang’s latest LP will hit streaming services on July 14, 2023.

“You’ve got the funk, you’ve got the jazzier tracks, we have a few ballads on there. Then there are songs that cross over to a pop sort of thing. We go from the ’70s, the ’80s, right into now. It’s old school, it’s new school—we kinda captured it all here. With all our music over the years, people have had fun. So I’d say this album just about sums it all up,” Robert “Kool” Bell told VIBE.

“It’s all done live. Nothing was flown in. We made sure we had the ultraviolet lights and the sprays and the masks. Nobody got sick. We kept the number of people in the studio way down,” stated the 74-year-old,” George “Funky” Brown added.

The project’s release will be accompanied by their 16-city tour. Beginning May 5, the group will hit the road and stop in cities like Las Vegas, Boston, London and Los Angeles. The tour will conclude in Saratoga, California at The Mountain Winery on September 24, 2023.