Sweet Fortune, Ryan Beatty’s fourth album, arrives after nearly a decade in which he reinvented himself time and time again, traversing the spectrum of the pop world. He delivered hooks for artists like Brockhampton and Tyler, The Creator in the late ‘10s, then would venture into the ether to dream up his own albums — quieter, blearier, more reflective.

In more recent years, he toured with Noah Kahan and Maggie Rogers while secretly working on what would become Beyonce’s blockbuster 2024 album Cowboy Carter. Beatty would go on to win the Album Of The Year Grammy for contributing four songs to the record. Yet even his most stratospheric mainstream successes didn’t change how he needed to work when it was time for his own music.