Damon - Black Monument Ensemble Locks NOW 11/26/21

Damon - Black Monument Ensemble Locks NOW 11/26/21Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble's previous album, their 2018 debut Where Future Unfolds, had a best new music in Pitchfork, was a "Top 50 Album of the Year" in Wire Magazine, and was BBC DJ Gilles Peterson's unequivocal "Favorite Album of the Year." NOW is the band's much anticipated followup, which carries on their unique brand of Choir fronted Hip Hop meets Gospel Jazz Liberation Music very much a modern day echo of the Harlem Freedom Singers

with the synthesized funk of Causers of This

This name terrified me

originally released on October 19

"Believe" draws on dreamy '60s soul (complete with phased vocals and sing-along chorus)

† Shemekia captures the timelessness of the blues while spinning it forward with remarkable maturity

Marine Dreams is a record of modern pop songs written by former Attack in Black bassist

Design Feature: Stained Glass Arch

Leader Neil Finn's carefully crafted songs

into that dancing

Oregon David worked as a sound engineer and session musician

and "Half A Chance"

according to hip swivelling front man Duncan Wallis