BERWYN proclaims debut album ‘WHO AM I’ with new single ‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’
BERWYN has introduced his hotly-anticipated debut album ‘WHO AM I’ and shared transferring new single, ‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’.
- READ MORE: BERWYN: Romford underdog’s soul-baring rap helps these in want
Following the discharge of the highly effective single ‘I AM BLACK’, the brand new album affords what’s described as a “vivid and susceptible journey by way of BERWYN’s seek for which means and freedom”.
Information of the NME Award-winning singer-rapper’s debut is accompanied by the discharge of ‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’, a spoken phrase battle cry in opposition to a corrupt immigration system.
On the tune, BERWYN sings: “You make me take a look at the mirror in horror, you took my tomorrow / I need you to know since I used to be 9 I felt like against the law / I used to think about you coming for me day by day of my life” – watch beneath.
His lyrical honesty has develop into a signature of his sound, which he beforehand instructed NME was “a double-edged sword“, saying: “The sick half about all of it is that for my day job I arise on a wood stage and individuals are like ‘Your life is tough? Inform me extra. Give me extra.’”
However that hasn’t put the Trinidad-born artist off being emotionally frank, along with his debut studio album promising “crafted and cohesive reflections on religion, on the tugs of dependancy and the embrace of affection, on what it means to be demonised to your immigration standing or pores and skin color”.
In 2021, the Mercury Prize nominee instructed NME his work was deliberately “solemn, musical and explorative,” occurring to say these attributes have been “instruments relative to each human being inside the matrix we stay in.”
The debut album follows BERWYN’s EP, ‘Bulletproof’, and two earlier mixtapes, ‘Demotape/Vega’ and ‘Tape 2/Fomalhaut’, which NME wrote had “an exquisite twilight high quality” in a four-star evaluation.
‘WHO AM I’ is out on July 12 through Columbia Data. You’ll be able to pre-save the album here.
The ‘WHO AM I’ tracklist is:
‘BAD THING’
‘WHO AM I’
‘I AM BLACK’
‘ALL SHE EVER WANTED’
‘HATE’
‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’
‘NEIGHBOURS’
‘MEET ME BY THE RIVER’
‘I’M DROWNING’
‘LOVE IS BLIND’
‘WITHOUT YOU’
‘MAMA’