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  • ReleaseProduct
    Ancestor Boy
    Label
    !K7 Records
    Catalogue Number
    K7S379
    Release Date
    March 22, 2019

    The debut full-length album from Lafawndah, released via her own label imprint CONCORDIA, is a bracing statement of intent, heralding an artist unbound in scope, scale, and intensity. She opens 2019 with bold single DADDY, plotting new territory onto her own highly personalized map of influence – a map drawing the club, composition, and pop into thrillingly unresolved, ultramodern erotics.

    Having in her prior self-titled and TAN EPs upturned geography, in ANCESTOR BOY Lafawndah digs deep to unravel geology, mining emotions of the deep past and future. The album’s physicality is elemental; its memory, mineral. It is a becoming- of- age story for a people yet to come, created out of a need to find the others. In the middle of the album’s sonic and lyrical onslaught is the desire to share the uncertainties of growing up when you don’t belong anywhere. Crafted with the aid of fellow travelers Nick Weiss, Aaron David Ross, and James Connolly,

    ANCESTOR BOY’s maximalism- it’s overflow of detail, of feeling, of ideas- serves to amplify a frequent lyrical motif: the sensation that one body, one lifetime, isn’t big enough for what you’re feeling. The record is pregnant with memories shared across more than one mind, recalling the storytelling antagonisms of Nina Simone at her most strident and unpredictable. In response, the rhythmic aggressions of her music have grown even more determined and psychedelic, drawing a line in fire between Jimmy Jam’s turnt industrialism on Control ​and the furious unease of ​Red Mecca-​era Cabaret Voltaire.

    With a palate equal parts chrome and dirt, ice and depth, Lafawndah’s finesse with song architecture imbues the LP with an uncanny addictiveness: anthems loaded with trap doors. ANCESTOR BOY imagines a pop music that is neither imperial nor local, but a freedom of movement; a residue, perhaps, from the album’s nomadic creation between Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, London, and Paris.

    Digital Tracklist

    1. 1 Uniform 3:14 Buy

      Uniform

    2. 2 Daddy 3:39 Buy

      Daddy

    3. 3 Parallel 4:56 Buy

      Parallel

    4. 4 Ancestor Boy 4:38 Buy

      Ancestor Boy

    5. 5 Storm Chaser 3:15 Buy

      Storm Chaser

    6. 6 Vous Et Nous 2:03 Buy

      Vous Et Nous

    7. 7 Waterwork 4:12 Buy

      Waterwork

    8. 8 Substancia 3:26 Buy

      Substancia

    9. 9 Joseph 4:01 Buy

      Joseph

    10. 10 Oasis 3:31 Buy

      Oasis

    11. 11 Tourist 3:25 Buy

      Tourist

    12. 12 I'm An Island 3:05 Buy

      I'm An Island

    13. 13 Blueprint 2:13 Buy

      Blueprint

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