Label: Dais
Released 2021
Manchester UK's Space Afrika make music of what they term "overlapping moments" - oblique mosaics of dialogue, rhythm, texture, and shadow, half-heard through a bus window on a rainy night. Honest Labour, the group's first full-length since 2020's landmark hybtwibt? (have you been through what i've been through?) mixtape, expands the project's palette with classical strings, shimmering guitar, and visionary vocal cameos, leaning further into their enigmatic fusion of ambient unrest and cosmic downtempo. It's a sound both fogged and fragmented, at the axis of song craft and sound design, born from and for the yearning solitudes of life under lockdown.
Track listing:
- Yyyyyy2222
- Indigo Grit (Feat. Guest)
- Lose You Beau
- Solemn
- LV
- Preparing the Perfect Response -
- NY Interlude
- Rings (Feat. Guest)
- Noise Sweet
- B£E (Feat. Blackhaine)
- Like Orchids
- Meet Me at Sachas
- U (Feat. Kinseylloyd)
- <>
- Girl Scout Cookies (Feat. Bianca Scout)
- Ladybird Drone
- With Your Touch
- Strength (Feat. La Timpa)
- Honest Labour (Feat. Hforspirit)