New Music Friday has brought the release of Loyle Carner’s ‘hugo’ album – have a listen right here on Live4ever.
The themes running through Loyle Carner’s third studio record – built around the question: ‘I’m young, Black, successful and have a platform but where do I go next?’ – were on impressive display right from the off, on the lead track Hate and its follow-up Georgetown, the latter inspired by John Agard’s poem ‘Half-caste’.
“To see someone who was older, that looked like me, sharing a reflection of a similar lived experience made me feel comfortable/proud to not fit in,” Carner said.
“It kinda gave me the permission to finally write explicitly about being mixed. There’s so much beauty in the gaps in-between, and in some ways this song touches on that. For me, it’s about finding this inner confidence through understanding of self, and spending time back home.”