Ibibio Sound Machine
Electricity
Merge Records
Album four from Ibibio sound machine feels like the best representation of their shapeshifting sound – dancefloor grooves become political anthems become introspective musings while staying loose and freeing.
and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. “It’s darker than anything we’ve done previously,” says Eno Williams, the group’s singer. “That’s because it grew out of the turbulence of the past year. It inhabits an edgier world.” Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award and Mercury Prize nominated British synthpop group Hot Chip, a collaboration born out of mutual admiration watching each other on festival stages, as well as a shared love of Francis Bebey and Giorgio Moroder. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder.
Tracklist
- Protection From Evil
- Electricity
- Casio (Yak Nda Nda)
- Afo Ken Doko Mien5. All That You Want
- Wanna See Your Face Again
- 17 18 19
- Truth No Lie
- Oyoyo
- Something We’ll Remember (CD & LP Download Bonus track)
- Almost Flying (CD & LP Download Bonus track)
- Freedom (CD & LP Download Bonus track)