Description
Spirituals is Santigold”s first full – length album since 2016”s 99¢, and was mostly recorded during the 2020 lockdown. “”All of a sudden there I was with three small children out of school – just – turned – two – year – old twins and a six – year – old – I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and changing diapers from morning to night, with three little k ids coming in and out of my bed throughout each night like musical chairs. I was losing touch with the artist me, stuck in a part of myself that was too small. I felt the other parts of me were shrinking, disappearing.”” Santigold struggled but succeeded in defining a space in which she could center herself and collaborate virtually with producers and contributors: Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner, SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson . “”Recording this album was a way back to myself after being stuck in survival mode. It wasn”t until I made the space to create that I realized I wasn”t only creating music but a lifeline,”” she says. California was on fire, we were hiding from a plague, th e social justice protests were unfolding. “”I”d never written lyrics faster in my life. After having total writer”s block, they started pouring out. I decided to create the future, to look towards where we are going, to create beauty and pull towards that beauty. I need that for myself, but it”s also there for whoever else needs it.””
- Tracklist:
- 1 My Horror
- 2 Nothing
- 3 High Priestess
- 4 Ushers of the New World
- 5 Witness
- 6 Shake
- 7 The Lasty
- 8 No Paradise
- 9 Ain”t Ready
- 10 Fall First
