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14 tracks · 41 min
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On his Mercury Prize-winning debut album, 2017’s Process, Sampha Sisay often cut an isolated figure. As the Londoner’s songs contended with loss—particularly the passing of his parents—and anxieties about his health and relationships, a sense of insularity and detachment haunted his poignant, experimental electro-soul. Arriving six years later, this follow-up presents a man re-establishing and strengthening connections. Lifted by warm synths and strings, songs are energised by the busy rhythms of jungle, broken beat and West African Wassoulou music. Images of flight dominate as Sampha zooms out from everyday preoccupations to take a bird’s-eye view of the world and his place in it as a father, a friend, a brother, a son. “I feel sometimes making an album is like a manifesto for how I should be living, or that all the answers are in what I’m saying,” he tells Apple Music. “I don’t necessarily live by what I’m saying but there’s times where I recognise that I need to reconnect to family and friends—times where I can really lose connection by being too busy with my own things.” So where Process ended with Sampha ruefully noting, “I should visit my brother/But I haven’t been there in …