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R&B legend D’Angelo’s long-awaited new album is said to be on its way at last.

The singer’s third full-length to date will follow on from 1995′s Brown Sugar and 2000′s Voodoo.

It’s been in the works since 2001, but has seen repeated delays due to the artist’s repeated drug addictions and family deaths.

Now, however, The Roots man Questlove, who will drum on the album, has said it should be all finished by next month.

“If this record is not turned in by February, then something is extremely wrong. Because we worked to the bone in the entire month of January just to tighten up all the loose ends.”

He continued:

“I would not be far off by saying this is probably my generation’s version of Sly (and the Family Stone’s) There’s a Riot Goin’ On. It’s potent. It’s funky. It’s an extremely hard pill to swallow. He’s one of those artists that have, of course, taken 13 years to follow up a record. It’s going to take you about 10 years to digest this record. Totally brilliant. Just the way this society works with music… being able to judge if something is a classic after the first listen, you can do that after thirty seconds on this. And the fact that we started this record in 2004, and it still sounds like it came out five years from now, it is a testament to the timelessness of it.”

Don’t take this as gospel though, as this is the the same person who said the record was “pretty much 97% done” back in December 2011.

The LP is going by the working title of James River.