Rachael Wright
Kele Okereke‘s next solo escapade will be a new album entitled 2042.
Following the soundtrack album Leave To Remain of earlier this year and 2017’s solo debut Fatherland, the Bloc Party frontman will release 2042 on November 8th and is previewing it with Jungle Bunny. “There is a history of black entertainers feeling that after they have achieved a certain level of success that they are above discussions of race but that idea is a delusion,” he says.
“As a person of colour living in the western world, it does not matter how much wealth one accumulates, race will follow you wherever you go.”
“With Jungle Bunny I wanted explore this idea: In a time of such rampant division and public racism, what is the responsibility of the black entertainer?”
2042 tracklist:
Jungle Bunny
Past Lives (Interlude)
Let England Burn
St Kaepernick Wept
Guava Rubicon
My Business
Ceiling Games
Where She Came From (Interlude)
Between Me And My Maker
Natural Hair
Cyril’s Blood
Secrets West 29th
Catching Feelings
A Day Of National Shame (Interlude)
Ocean View
Back Burner