By: Jerrica Zabala, SFU Scholar
Younger Fathers is again from a four-year hiatus and their model is as avant-garde as ever. The well-anticipated album, Heavy Heavy, has listeners captivated by the band’s euphoric electro-gospel. However not even that class does their music manufacturing justice. Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and “G” Hastings furnish their recordings with hue and cries, unpredictability, and symbolism by way of their peculiar beats and lyrics. I discover it exhausting to check this report to something mainstream or categorize their style.
Beginning off the album, in “Rice,” the singer acknowledges their energy and attain inside their group with lyrics like, “These palms / can heal / clear palms / can heal.” Metaphors of “coming round a bend” and being “caught within the gentle” depict overcoming the woes that cling to our identities. This units up the cataclysmic themes for the next tracks. Enjoyable truth: If in case you have performed the brand new FIFA 23 not too long ago, you’ll discover this music is on their official soundtrack.
“I Noticed” and “Drum” are the scorchers of the album. Even with the dissonance heard in these tracks, bittersweetness is felt, with the lyrics, “Buried in between justice / Holier than thou / I noticed what I noticed / I maintain strolling on the road.” The music takes on the perspective of a person conscious of the disparities embedded of their environment however chooses to remain silent with the intention to dwell peacefully. This artistry generally is a reflection of life’s present political and socio-economic tribulations around the globe. In “Drum,” Kayus Bankole pays tribute to his mom tongue, Yoruba, expressing himself in non secular and cultural ways in which English can’t. Shut your eyes. Hearken to how every rhythm hastens, slows down, and see in case your pulse syncs up.
Acquired sufficient to consider as it’s? Skip over to tracks “Ululation” and “Sink or Swim.” The sunshine piano melodies, upbeat claps, South African chanting, and instrument layering presents a way of optimism and sanguineness to gentle up sorrows. It brings a sense of reduction from the competing thrashes of noise and brooding meanings because the album climaxes.
This album tells the tales of adversity and the contrasts between gentle and darkish. Heavy Heavy carries on tales from previous data containing a wealthy historical past of the band’s upbringing. As all the time, Younger Fathers’ style non-conformity welcomes all types of musical tastes.
