Carly Rae Jepsen drops surprise album 'Dedicated: Side B'

Carly Rae Jepson has surprised her fans by dropping Dedicated: Side B, the follow-up to 2019's Dedicated.

The project is make up of 12 songs, just a dozen of the hundreds of tracks that didn't make the LP's final cut.

Dedicated: Side B features writing credits from Jack Antonoff - the producer of Lorde and Lana Del Rey's forthcoming albums - as well as Ariel Rechtshaid, Dev Hynes and John Hill.

Writing the announcement on Twitter, Jepsen noted the “whispers” of Side B‘s upcoming release from fans.

“I hope it makes yah dance your pants off,” the post reads. “I owe yah one…or like two albums turns out. ;)”

This isn't the first time Jepsen has released a companion to one of her albums. The nine-song EP Emotion: Side B was released in 2016 following Emotion's success.

Jepsen reportedly writes a never-ending amount of songs while recording her projects, and Side B will offer an interesting taste of was cut from Dedicated.

The artist's fourth studio album was released in May of 2019, following which Jepsen embarked on a tour that has since been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Have a read of Jepsen's post below:

So, yes there have been whispers and I'm bad at keeping secrets. Side B for DEDICATED is out now babies. I hope it makes it yah dance your pants off! I owe yah one...or like two albums turns out. ;)

For the record, I love all of you.

Carly Rae ♥️ https://t.co/WtVQRUvach pic.twitter.com/jV3Ow8OP5c

— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) May 21, 2020