Music

SAULT's work reinforces the sonic connections between global Black communities — from Africa to the Americas — and brings in a multitude of voices to tell an undivided story. Across 12 releases over three years, the London ensemble SAULT has posed a number of increasingly existential questions: "Why do fools always have something to say?" (7, 2019), "Can you forgive your people?" (Untitled (Black Is), 2020), "Can't you see the […]

The work that so clearly went into sharpening Wizkid's delivery bristles against the listlessness applied to his writing. His voice alone can no longer sustain him. Fawaz Ibrahim Wizkid will not be rushed. Famous for teasing albums years before they drop, he's constantly driving his devoted fan base, Wizkid FC, into a frenzy on social media. But the long waits have often paid off. His 2020 full-length, Made In Lagos, […]

Spirituals is Santigold's first album in six years. The artist's career has been defined by an ability to coax apparently disparate influences into cohesion. As frequently as music fans tend to point to the early 2000s as the dawn of our digital enlightenment, consider the ways those first few years online now feel like the dark ages. Bound by terrestrial radio formats, genres still mostly dared not mix on air […]

Courtesy: Instagram/@badgalriri This week, Rihanna fans got the best surprise of all. "Badgal Riri" is coming out of her long musical hiatus to perform at Superbowl LVII. The Roc Nation artist and “R8” singer hasn’t yet spoken on the news, but she confirmed it on Instagram – with her tatted hand holding a NFL football. The HYFIN team is very excited to see which songs will be on her set […]