Kele Okereke, Bloc Party (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Kele Okereke will release his next solo album Fatherland on October 6th.
The LP features contributions from guests including Years & Years’ Olly Alexander and Corinne Bailey Rae, and according to Okereke was inspired by classic acoustic records such as Elliott Smith’s Either/Or and Joni Mitchell’s Blue.
“I was listening a lot to Elliott Smith’s Either/Or, Pink Moon by Nick Drake, Blue by Joni Mitchell, and the Al Green album, Still in Love With You,” he says.
“Writing these songs and expressing these words and feelings, it’s something that’s vital for me. I’m recognising I’m entering into a different part of my life.”
“I’m fully conscious that this record is probably going to serve as a document for Savannah of the relationship between her fathers and who we were before she came into our lives. It feels important for her to see that we don’t have all the answers but we’re trying.”
Fatherland tracklist:
Overture
Streets Been Talking
You Keep On Whispering His Name
Capers
Grounds For Resentment (feat. Olly Alexander)
Yemaya
Do U Right
Versions Of Us (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae)
Portrait
Road To Ibadan
Savannah
The New Year Party
Royal Reign