Cocoa Sugar, by Young Fathers

Cocoa Sugar

by Young Fathers

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themadjozef This is just amazing, especially lyrics. The variety of music here grants makes me want to listen it over and over, it just hits all the right spots in my soul Favorite track: In My View.

BetoR This is some of the most creative and melodic songwriting out there. Favorite track: Border Girl.

billybobbell One of the best records of the decade. Makes you think, laugh, love and dance. Excellent.

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Young Fathers - 'Cocoa Sugar' LPX [ZEN248X]
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Limited edition 180g single blue vinyl gloss laminate printed 3mm spine outer sleeve designed by Hingston Studio with photography by Julia Noni. Lyric printed inner sleeve. Download code included.

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1.	See How 02:01		buy track
2.	Fee Fi 02:41		buy track
3.	In My View 03:15		buy track
4.	Turn 03:36		buy track
5.	Lord 03:37	info	buy track
6.	Tremolo 03:08		buy track
7.	Wow 04:00		buy track
8.	Border Girl 04:01		buy track
9.	Holy Ghost 02:32		buy track
10.	Wire 01:40		buy track
11.	Toy 03:13		buy track
12.	Picking You 03:04		buy track

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In November 2017, Young Fathers announced that they’d completed work on a new album. The trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole – marked the news by previewing a brand new song, ‘Lord’ and a subsequent accompanying video. Just like their previous standalone 2017 single ‘Only God Knows’ (written for the Trainspotting T2 film and described by director Danny Boyle as “the heartbeat of the film”), ‘Lord’ provided an enticing glimpse of what to expect from Young Fathers’ third full album; something typically unique and exhilarating, but leaner, more muscular and self-assured than ever before.

Today, Young Fathers announce full details of that album. Titled Cocoa Sugar, the twelve track album will be released on 9th March 2018 via Ninja Tune and follows the group’s previous two albums; 2014’s Mercury Prize-winning DEAD and 2015’s White Men Are Black Men Too. Written and recorded throughout 2017 in the band’s basement studio and HQ, Cocoa Sugar sees Young Fathers operating with a newfound clarity and direction, and is without doubt their most confident and complete statement to date.

To celebrate news of the new album, Young Fathers today reveal a brand new single ‘In My View’. Accompanied by a video directed by Jack Whiteley, ‘In My View’ is available now.

Cocoa Sugar will be available on CD, LP, limited LP and via all digital services. It features a striking visual aesthetic, with cover photography from Julia Noni and creative direction from Tom Hingston.

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released March 9, 2018

2018, Ninja Tune

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Young Fathers Edinburgh, UK

Young Fathers were christened in 2008, named after the fact that all three members were named for their fathers..
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‘G’ Hastings, from Drylaw, Edinburgh, Alloysious Massaquoi, originally from Liberia via Ghana and Kayus Bankole, born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents but partially raised in Maryland in the USA, all 27 years old. ... more

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