Honest Labour
豆瓣
简介
Honest Labour, the group's first full-length since 2020's landmark hybtwibt? (have you been through what i’ve been through?) mixtape, expands the project's palette with classical strings, shimmering guitar, and visionary vocal cameos, leaning further into their enigmatic fusion of ambient unrest and cosmic downtempo. It's a sound both fogged and fragmented, at the axis of song craft and sound design, born from and for the yearning solitudes of life under lockdown.
The album title is tiered, alluding to a legendary patriarch from co-founder Joshua Inyang's Nigerian family tree (who was lovingly called “Honest Labour” for his loyalty and resilience) as well as the nature of self-designated work, such as Space Afrika's music – a “labor of love” in its truest sense. With fellow co-founder Joshua Reid recently relocated to Berlin, the pair began sharing files last autumn, piecing together poetic vignettes of looping haze and found sound, inspired by the notion of “records that leave an impression, and help the listener deal with their life.” As the isolation of Covid compounded with the worsening winter, the songs skewed increasingly introspective and emotive, reflecting a mood of dissipating futures and the infinite nocturnal unknown.
tracks
01 – yyyyyy2222
02 – Indigo Grit (feat. Guest)
03 – Lose You Beau
04 – Solemn
05 – LV
06 – Preparing the Perfect Response ~
07 – NY Interlude
08 – Rings (feat. Guest)
09 – Noise Sweet
10 – BœE (feat. Blackhaine)
11 – Like Orchids
12 – Meet Me At Sachas
13 – U (feat. kinseyLloyd)
14 –
15 – Girl Scout Cookies (feat. Bianca Scout)
16 – Ladybird Drone
17 – With Your Touch
18 – Strength (feat. LA Timpa)
19 – Honest Labour (feat. HforSpirit)