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[tojofotos]

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[seabassmusic]

Young Fathers - Conscious Pop

I started this year learning about Young Fathers because they were confirmed for NOS Alive where they soon became one of the bands I was most looking forward to watch live. Their live performance was incredible, but I’ll talk about that at the end of the year I’m sure. What I want to talk about now is how this Mercury Prize winning group has really impressed me, turning my hesitation on their album Dead completely around with an excellent lo-fi pop album in White Men are Black Men Too.

“How do we help tackle one of the biggest hinderances in people’s lives and the world… by not putting the question forward and not letting people debate positively or negatively about the statement?“ - Alloysious.

It was this attitude that took the album title forward, that had them tackle difficult issues, head on and without apology. Including racial and gender issues, they’re trying to talk about them honestly, breaking down walls. Death, dying and killing all become addressed too, as is running away from life and responsibilities, ... They are trying to understand themselves and their place in the world, and with different energies and style they end up with a complex album, which is extremely cohesive. They are a sort of social justice warrior band, even renaming their European Tour “We Are All Migrants Tour”, to underline their beliefs. And if you really love WMABMT, try their two EP’s Tape One and Tape Two. To me they are one of the next big things in pop, and I really hope they keep their soul.

[rxmusicblog-blog]

If you haven’t heard of Young Fathers, you are missing out on some of the most intense shit of ya lyyyyfe. This Scottish hip-hop trio with African roots is the winner of the 2014 Mercury Prize, which honors the best UK album of the year, beating out the likes of FKA twigs and Bombay Bicycle Club. They consider themselves pop, but it’s definitely some of the most subversive and challenging “pop” I’ve ever heard.

I had the pleasure of seeing them this April at Music Hall of Williamsburg and they were seriously awe-inspiring. Check out some clips of their live performances if you don’t believe me (okay, ur lazy, I know, click here). I’m pretty sure they didn’t speak a word on stage, but these guys know how to command attention; they go from stern and stationary to flailing and dancing in a heartbeat. Every second of it is chock full of unfailing passion.

My preferred mode of listening is while mimicking the avian death throes of their Shame music video and pretending like I have something to be really angry about. Try it sometime.

[mathewsmith]

YOUNG FATHERS

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Vancouver 2015

[ramosmolina]

[noondaytune]

Shame - Young Fathers.

I know, I know... Didn’t we feature Scottish alternative hip-hop group Young Fathers just the other day, right before they rocked Jo’burg and Cape Town with their energetic (read: ridiculously awesome) live show? Well, yes, but it would be a shame (yeah, I went there) not to feature the Mercury Prize winner’s latest, joyful-despite-the-name single, “Shame”. Its soul-spiked exuberance and unashamedly catchy ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ layered over the type of gritty bass sound that gets you as much in the guts as in your ears is exactly what you need to shake you out of your Monday funk. Or into it. 

Look out for their new album White Men Are Black Men Too, out on 6 April.

Contributed by @AnnieBrookstone.