John Legend’s ‘Muse’: New Album Produced by Pharrell

John Legend and Pharrell Williams made an album in Paris last year that the EGOT artist says is unlike any of his others.

Muse, set for an Oct. 23 release on Republic Records — and written and recorded at Pharrell’s studio at Louis Vuitton’s headquarters, where he’s men’s creative director — had Legend looking beyond evergreen piano standards and into a “Black James Bond aesthetic, but with a modern backbeat at its foundation.”

“You can hear traces of me and traces of him, but it sounds like something new for the both of us. The combination of me and Pharrell, on paper, I think, is a good…