Shenseea confirmed her new EP Catalyst on November 2, an eight track project that arrives on Friday, November 6 through Since 93 and Columbia Records. The Shenseea Catalyst EP is her first major project since her Grammy nominated sophomore album Never Gets Late Here in May 2024, and the shared tracklist shows a record built to travel well beyond Jamaica.
For Toronto readers, this is the kind of Caribbean release that lands instantly. The city carries one of the largest Jamaican diaspora communities in the world, and dancehall records do not need an introduction here. They move through fetes, barbershops, car stereos and winter playlists on their own schedule. A new Shenseea project with this guest list is a diaspora story as much as a Kingston one, and November 6 is now circled on both sides of that route.
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Shenseea Catalyst EP tracklist pairs Kingston with Lagos
The eight songs are Playtime featuring Asake, Talk To Me Nuh featuring Vybz Kartel, Private featuring Loe Shimmy, and the solo cuts Vulnerability, Danger, Garden, Body Language and 2 Face Gyal. Three guests, three different lanes. Asake brings the Afrobeats audience that has made him one of the most streamed African artists in the world. Vybz Kartel brings dancehall at its most storied. Loe Shimmy brings a Florida rap voice that has been rising through the American South. Shenseea holds the centre of all three exchanges, which has been her skill since the beginning: she can ride a riddim, a pop structure or an R and B melody without sounding like a guest on her own record.
The sequencing tells its own story. Playtime opens the project with the Asake collaboration, the widest door on the record. Talk To Me Nuh follows with the Kartel link, the record with the deepest roots. Private places Loe Shimmy third, and after that Shenseea carries five songs alone, including Vulnerability, which early coverage has flagged as the personal side of the EP. An artist who front loads features and then closes solo is making a statement about where the weight of the project sits.
Talk To Me Nuh carries the history
Talk To Me Nuh is not a new recording. Shenseea and Vybz Kartel released it with producer Rvssian in March 2026, with a video directed by Shane Creative and filmed in Nigeria and Miami. Its place on Catalyst turns a strong single into an anchor. The connection between the two artists runs back a decade, to Loodi in 2016, the record that helped introduce Shenseea to a wider dancehall audience when she was still breaking through. This year alone they have also connected on Panic, Kartel record that Shenseea joined before the EP announcement.
He believed in me from early.
That is how Shenseea described Kartel when Talk To Me Nuh arrived, in coverage of the single by World Music Views. It is a short line that explains a long working relationship. Kartel championed her before the international deals and the Grammy nomination, and Catalyst gives that history a permanent home on a project of hers rather than leaving it scattered across singles.
A first project on a new label deal
Catalyst is Shenseea first multi track project since signing with Since 93 and Columbia Records in late 2025. That context matters. Never Gets Late Here, released in May 2024, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album and confirmed that her crossover was not a moment but a position. A follow up on a new label, in EP form, at eight tracks, reads as a deliberate reset: short enough to be replayed whole, stacked enough to test which of her lanes the audience follows first.
Her versatility is the through line of her career. She has moved between traditional dancehall, contemporary R and B, hip hop and international pop while keeping her Jamaican identity at the front of the record. Catalyst compresses that whole range into eight songs. Playtime tests the Afrobeats bridge. Talk To Me Nuh certifies the dancehall foundation. Vulnerability promises the confessional writing that has grown alongside the hits.
What November 6 will settle
When the EP lands on Friday, the questions are practical ones. Which guest record travels furthest outside its home audience. Whether the solo back half holds attention the way the feature front half will. And whether an eight track EP is the full statement or the setup for a third album in 2027. What is already settled is the positioning. Shenseea is not chasing the dancehall conversation from outside it. With Catalyst, she is setting its table, in Kingston, in Lagos, in Florida, and in every Toronto car where dancehall plays loudest in the cold months.
