Heavy Heavy

by Young Fathers

Heavy Heavy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 February 2023
  • Label: Ninja Tune
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 32:35
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 18 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking their first album in five years, 'Heavy Heavy' finds the trio balancing raw, percussive energy and industrial textures with soaring, gospel-inflected choral arrangements and strong, accessible melodic hooks. The group's three vocalists deliver passionate, chanted performances that explore themes of survival and communal joy with an urgent, celebratory fervor. The critically lauded album won the 2023 Scottish Album of the Year Award, praised for its dense, genre-defying synthesis of sound and its life-affirming vitality.

Genres

Descriptors: percussive, distorted, maximalist, bombastic, communal

Tracklist

  1. Rice (02:39)
  2. I Saw (03:27)
  3. Drum (03:38)
  4. Tell Somebody (03:10)
  5. Geronimo (03:33)
  6. Shoot Me Down (03:28)
  7. Ululation (02:53)
  8. Sink Or Swim (03:04)
  9. Holy Moly (03:29)
  10. Be Your Lady (03:14)

Credits

  • Alloysious Massaquoi - vocals, percussion, toms, written-by
  • Kayus Bankole - vocals, percussion, written-by
  • Graham "G" Hastings - vocals, percussion, piano, organ, vox continental, transcendent, jasper, korg minipops, boss pc-2, mellotron, syntrx, er-1 drum machine, production, engineering, written-by
  • Liam Hutton - drums, percussion, talking drum, timpani, sounds [bin with chains]
  • Iain Berryman - guitar, buzuq [bazouki], piano, percussion, additional production, engineer, mixed by
  • Raven Bush - strings
  • Tapiwa Mambo - vocals, written-by
  • Anele Mthembu - vocals
  • Nomasonto Mthembu - vocals
  • Nonhlanhla Mhlongo - vocals
  • Toyiz Mchunu - vocals
  • Hingston Studio - design, art direction
  • Drew Dungate-Smith - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Kristian Donaldson - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Niklas Fairclough - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Andrea Cozzaglio - engineer [assistant engineering]
  • Sophie Ellis - engineer [assistant engineering]
  • Jimmy Owen Jones - make-up, other [prosthetics]
  • James Stanson - management
  • Marc Picken - management
  • Matt Colton - mastered by
  • Ben Baptie - mixed by
  • Jordan Hemingway - photography
  • Nick Royal - stylist, costume designer
  • Richard Adlam - sample replay production
  • Hal Ritson - sample replay production

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