Obongjayar

Linking his soul-drenched vocals with expressive percussion and body-twanging rhythms, Obongjayar's second outing finds him diving into increasingly personal subject matter but serving it with the sort of bumping beats that you'd expect to leave dancefloors in pieces.

Obongjayar's sophomore is an ambitiously fresh, global prospect, with roots grounded in his own wide-ranging world of influences. It’s everything from pop to punk, dance to Afrobeat, funk to folk, refracted through a thrilling new perspective. “I wanted an album that I could listen to from start to finish on a night out.” But he still considers it something of a Trojan Horse.

Recorded between London and LA with UK alt-rap mainstay, Kwes Darko ( Pa Salieu, John Glacier) and Grammy-winning production trio, Beach Noise (Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, Bakar), the record is as emotionally complex and broad as Obongjayar has ever been, even within its contagious candy coating