Santigold - Spirituals [Picture Disc]

Little Jerk Records

£32.38

Format: Picture Disc
Catalogue No.: LJR001LP-C1
Barcode: 0617308020922
Release Date: 09 Sep 2022
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

 ‘Spirituals’ is Santigold’s first full-length album since 2016’s ‘99¢’ and was mostly recorded during the 2020 lockdown. “All of a sudden there I was with three small children out of school - just-turned-two-year-old twins and a six-year-old - I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and changing diapers from
morning to night, with three little kids coming in and out of my bed throughout each night like musical chairs. I was losing touch with the artist me, stuck in a part of myself that was too small. I felt the other parts of me were shrinking, disappearing.”
 Santigold struggled but succeeded in defining a space in which she could centre herself and collaborate virtually with producers and contributors: Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner,
SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson. “Recording this album was a way back to myself after being stuck in survival mode. It wasn’t
until I made the space to create that I realized I wasn’t only creating music but a lifeline,” she says.
 California was on fire, we were hiding from a plague, the social justice protests were unfolding. “I’d never written lyrics faster in my life. After having total writer’s block, they started pouring out. I decided to create the future, to look towards where we are going, to create beauty and pull towards that beauty. I need that for myself, but it’s also there for whoever else needs it.”

Tracklisting
My Horror
Nothing
High Priestess
Ushers of the New World
Witness
Shake
The Lasty
No Paradise
Ain’t Ready
Fall First