I know you鈥檙e hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try.
by Joshua Idehen
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 March 2026
- Label: Self-Released
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 47:22
- Community rating: 3.78/5 from 12 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Joshua Idehen鈥檚 2026 solo effort is a dense, cathartic exploration of collective struggle, its title serving as a central mantra. His signature spoken-word poetics navigate a fractured electronic landscape where glitchy, post-dubstep rhythms and industrial textures collide with moments of warm, analogue synth ambience. This sonic duality mirrors the album's core tension: the friction between pervasive modern anxiety and the defiant, necessary act of perseverance. The result is a challenging yet empathetic work that functions as both a stark social document and a personal, incantatory plea for resilience.
Genres
Descriptors: sampling, party, rhythmic, male-vocalist, melodic, club-ready, political, life-affirming, resilient
Tracklist
- You Wanna Dance Or What? (3:00)
- Interlude - It Won't Always Be Like This (0:16)
- It Always Was (2:32)
- This Is The Place (3:16)
- Interlude - What You Need To Hear (1:44)
- Could Be Forever (3:01)
- Mum Does the Washing (3:52)
- Don't Let It Get You Down (2:59)
- My Love (3:36)
- Interlude - How I Found Forgiveness (1:27)
- Brother (3:29)
- Whatever Comes (3:35)
- Choose Yourself (2:40)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (3:38)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once Reprise (1:47)
- Turn It Around (3:25)
- What Is Redemption (2:55)
Credits
- Saturday, Monday - Mix, Producer, Programming, Recording
- Joshua Idehen - Lead Vocals Vocal, Programming
- Repeat Beat Poet - Lead Vocals Vocal
- Oswald Flowers - Background Vocals Vocal
- Sofia Loporcaro - Background Vocals Vocal
- Gabriel Smith - Background Vocals Vocal
- Jamie Zubairi - Background Vocals Vocal
- Leo Lindberg - Piano
- Love 脰rsan - Bass Guitar
- Charlotte Manning - Lead Vocals Vocal
- Ellen Alveteg - Viola, Violin
- Christopher Cantillo - Percussion
- Simon St氓lhamre - Percussion
- Sharlene Hector - Background Vocals Vocal
- Anna Karlsson - Background Vocals Vocal
- Naomi Pilgrim - Background Vocals Vocal
- Ellen Wing氓rd - Background Vocals Vocal
- Badghal Raye - Background Vocals Vocal
- Amanda Bergman - Lead Vocals Vocal
- Karl Hovmark Bergfors - Drums (drum Set)
- Pete Fraser - Clarinet, Saxophone
- Shabaka Hutchings - Flute
- Andrew Johnstone - Background Vocals Vocal
- Samantha Schnitzler - Background Vocals Vocal
- Alexandra Andersson - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Ellen Berkemar - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Sara Brann盲s - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Patrick Konde - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Julia Marinkovic - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Malika Semakula - Choir Vocals Vocal
- Zikai - Background Vocals Vocal
- Sazzie Kluvitse - Lead Vocals Vocal
- Leone Ross - Lead Vocals Vocal