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Heavy Heavy

by Young Fathers

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    140g red vinyl housed in a 12" sleeve with 12 panel fold-out poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy Heavy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    140g black vinyl housed in a 12" sleeve with 12 panel fold-out poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy Heavy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
    ships out within 3 days
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    **Repress pre-order, estimated to ship on or around 2nd February.**
    CD housed in a heavyweight digipak with 24 panel fold-out poster.

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  • Young Fathers - 'Heavy Heavy' White Label LP [ZEN285W]
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition hand-signed and finished white label LP. 500 copies worldwide. 100 copies will be spraypainted and hand-finished by Young Fathers and allocated within random orders.

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  • Young Fathers - 'Heavy Heavy' White Deluxe LP [ZEN285DX]
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition 140g white vinyl housed in a handmade canvas board 12” sleeve with silkscreen special ink exclusive artwork cover, 12 panel fold-out poster and exclusive stencil. Housed in a white sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy Heavy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Young Fathers - 'Heavy Heavy' Black Deluxe LP [ZEN285A]
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition 140g white vinyl housed in a handmade canvas board 12” sleeve with silkscreen special ink exclusive artwork cover, 12 panel fold-out poster and exclusive stencil. Housed in a black sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy Heavy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Young Fathers - 'Heavy Heavy' Cassette [ZENCAS285]
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Black cassette housed in a satin-board O-Card sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy Heavy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Rice 02:39
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I Saw 03:27
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Drum 03:38
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Tell Somebody 03:10
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Geronimo 03:33
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Shoot Me Down 03:28
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Ululation 02:53
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Sink Or Swim 03:04
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Holy Moly 03:29
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Be Your Lady 03:14
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about

Young Fathers - Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings - announce details of their brand new album Heavy Heavy. Released on February 3rd 2023 via Ninja Tune, it’s the group’s fourth album and their first since 2018’s album Cocoa Sugar. The 10-track project signals a renewed back-to-basics approach, just the three of them in their basement studio, some equipment and microphones: everything always plugged in, everything always in reach.

Alongside the announcement ‘Heavy Heavy’, Young Fathers will make their much anticipated return to stages across the UK and Europe beginning February 2023 - known for their electrifying performances, their shows are a blur of ritualistic frenzy, marking them as one of the most must-see acts operating today. The tour will include shows at the Roundhouse in London, Elysee Montmartre in Paris, Paradiso in Amsterdam, O2 Academy in Leeds and Glasgow, Olympia in Dublin, Astra in Berlin, Albert Hall in Manchester, Trix in Antwerp, Mojo Club in Hamburg and more (full dates below)

To mark news of the album and the tour, Young Fathers today release a brand new single, “I Saw”. It’s the second track to be released from the album (following standalone single “Geronimo” in July) and brims with everything fans have come to love from a group known for their multi-genre versatility - kinetic rhythms, controlled chaos and unbridled soul. Accompanied by a video created by 23 year old Austrian-Nigerian artist and filmmaker David Uzochukwu, the track demonstrates the ambitious ideas that lay at the heart of this highly-anticipated record.

Speaking about the title, the band write that Heavy Heavy could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound… or it could be a nod to the natural progression of boys to grown men and the inevitable toll of living, a joyous burden, relationships, family, the natural momentum of a group that has been around long enough to witness massive changes.
“You let the demons out and deal with it,” reckons Kayus of the album. “Make sense of it after.”

For Young Fathers, there’s no dress code required. Dancing, not moshing. Hips jerking, feet slipping, brain firing in Catherine Wheel sparks of joy and empathy. Underground but never dark. Still young, after some years, even as the heavy, heavy weight of the world seems to grow day by day.

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released February 3, 2023

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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..
They are:
‘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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