Obongjayar announces his forthcoming album PARADISE NOW is coming Friday 30th May via September Recordings alongside news of his forthcoming UK/EU Tour – tickets on sale from Friday 11th April.
Featuring recent tracks including the hedonistic “Not In Surrender”, the dreamlike pop creation with a darker side “Just My Luck” and his new track “Sweet Danger” that is released today, the 15-track album album is a Trojan horse of some of his most intimate storytelling yet, candy-coated in electro-pop synths, soaring strings and ever contagious percussion.
Produced between London and LA with Kwes Darko (Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, Bakar), (Pa Salieu, John Glacier) and Beach Noise (Doja Cat) Yeti Beats, it promises adventure through the subconscious of one of the UK’s most thrilling modern voices grappling with everything from self-acceptance and transcendence to grief and loneliness, FOMO, procrastinations and nights you never want to end. Standing testament to Obongjayar’s unrivalled sonic and vocal dexterity, the album features no other artists other than his good friend and frequent collaborator Little Simz on “Talk Olympics” (OB recently featured on her single “Flood” taken from her next album).
Celebrating the announcement, “Sweet Danger” offers a flirtier counterpart to the previous single – OB self-assured and winking over syncopated drums, sultry guitars and a fanfare of horns: ‘heard you like the bad boys, yeah I’m a bad boy, can’t stop, won’t stop.’ A toxic hoedown set in a seedy South London hotel, the video directed by Sophie Jones is a montage of larger than life characters, each leaning into their own version of beauty and danger shot up close and POV whilst riding a mechanical bull – a metaphor for life itself; reckless, sweet and unpredictable.
Last Summer, Obongjayar launched his intimate party series PARADISE NOW at Ormside Projects which since has seen guests and friends alike pass through to perform including Little Simz, Pa Salieu, Kwes Darko, James Messiah, Dean George, Peter Xan, Lava La Rue, Chi, Kwes, Bikoko, Fredwave, Jeshi and more. His next party will be in May with more info to be announced soon.
Coming up this Autumn, OB will take this intimate and vigorous energy on the road across cities including Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester and London where he will play the O2 Kentish Town Forum – his largest London show to date. Pre-sale opens on Tuesday 8th April, before general on-sale Friday 11th.
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