‘Life is tough, life ain’t easy’ says Ghostpoet, but at least we’ve got his lovely music to get us through.
If you haven’t already gathered – we really like Ghostpoet at Raccoon towers. We’re actually running out of good things to say, someday we’ll just put out a mind-map of positive adjectives we use to describe his sulky tones.
Obaro Ejimiwe has returned to the studio after some extensive touring following 2013’s Some Say I So I Say Light. The new track titled ‘Off Peak Dreams’ was played exclusively on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show last night and plans for a new record Shedding Skin were revealed.
There’s always that irrational fear with new material from an artist you like – that somehow it won’t quite live up to expectations. But fear not, ‘Off Peak Dreams’ shows that ‘poet has not missed a step.
There’s still those moody undertones that make his sound so appealing – but also a huge sense of positive energy and spark about this first single. Those big bleak piano chords are pushed on by a bright drum track and Ghostpoet’s own lyrics which seem to show the spoken-word grumbler is a good place right now.
If this is the theme running through the whole of Shedding Skin, then we could be looking at Ghostpoet’s most complete album yet. Buzzing.