The Cavemen. Gear Up For Third Studio Album, ‘Cavy in the City’
Nigerian highlife duo The Cavemen. have officially announced their third studio album, Cavy in the City, set to release on October 31, 2025. The announcement was shared on October 23 along with striking sepia-toned cover art that blends traditional motifs with urbane visuals, Kingsley is seated on a carved wooden throne and Benjamin stands behind beneath an arched entrance in a garden-inspired setting.
This forthcoming album follows their critically-acclaimed projects Roots (2020) and Love and Highlife (2021), which helped resurrect the Igbo-inflected highlife sound for a new generation.
The Cavemen. began gaining attention with their debut album Roots. Released on August 21, 2020, the record was entirely self-produced, rooted in Igbo language, pidgin English, highlife rhythms and jazz-inflected instrumentation. The album marked a bold statement: rather than chasing Afrobeats’ global club-sound, the pair embraced the lush live-instrumentation and melodic warmth of highlife, a genre once dominant in West Africa.
Their second album, Love and Highlife, dropped in 2021. It featured 18 tracks and collaborations with the likes of Made Kuti and Cobhams Asuquo, while still remaining deeply rooted in the lush instrumentation and warm harmonies that define their sound.
With Cavy in the City, The Cavemen. appear to be turning a new page,while maintaining a deep respect for their cultural origins. The cover art alone communicates this duality: traditional aesthetics merged with an urban setting. This is significant, because highlife has often been tied to rural spaces or older urban scenes; The Cavemen. have long sought to bridge past and present.
Though the tracklist and featured artists have not yet been revealed, fan anticipation is high. Given their past output, it’s reasonable to expect the album will fuse the lilting guitars, brass touches and live drums of highlife with influences drawn from modern urban life, perhaps more cosmopolitan lyrics, production touches that reflect city-living and broader sonic palettes.
The Cavemen.’s work holds importance for multiple reasons. Firstly, they’ve helped bring highlife back into contemporary musical conversations, particularly among younger listeners who might have gravitated only toward Afrobeats.
