Idehen, Joshua - I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try (Transparent Yellow Coloured Vinyl)

Joshua Idehen - I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try (Transparent Yellow Coloured Vinyl)

Lately, it feels like the world is one endless bad news cycle. Joshua Idehen isn't here to pretend otherwise - but on the spoken word artist's new album, I Know You're Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try, he provides a phenomenal sonic, poetic space. Made with his creative partner, musician Ludvig Parment, the album is an urgent but transcendent collection that holds you through it all, filled with grief, euphoria and hope.

Across the album, that means uplifting choirs, cozy samples and exuberant, sometimes house-tinged beats. "I am personally drawn to music that transports you to a place, or scene or mindset," says Parment. This is topped with ruminative musings on morality and human connection; about the longer loves in life - like friendships, family - that sustain us. These come from Idehen and Parment, along with a host of friends and collaborators, including writers Leone Ross and Charlotte Manning, and vocalist Amanda Bergman, to help expand on the topics of the record without sounding preachy. Similarly, there are musical guests including saxophonist Pete Fraser and Shabaka Hutchings on flute, each helping to imbue the album with a rich warmth.

Pressed on a transparent yellow LP vinyl. 

Tracklisting:

1. You Wanna Dance Or What?
2. Interlude It Wont Always Be Like This
3. It Always Was
4. This Is the Place
5. Interlude What You Need To Hear
6. Could Be Forever
7. Mum Does the Washing
8. Dont Let It get You Down
9. My Love
10. Interlude How I Found Forgiveness
11. Brother
12. Whatever Comes
13. Choose Yourself
14. Everything Everywhere All At Once
15. Everything Everywhere All At Once Reprise
16. Tourn It Around
17. What Is Redemption