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.

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