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Since DOKO MIEN from 2016, the world has turned upside down. Not that everything was nice back then, but the madness progresses from year to year. On the album, produced not by themselves but by Hot Chip, the Ibibio Sound Machine adapts its sound to these gloomy circumstances.
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ELECTRICITY greets gruffly. “Protection From Evil” doesn’t want to make friends in any way. It’s all rhythm that singer Eno Williams rages about in her lyrics, which alternate between Ibibio and English. The dynamic that is present from the beginning increases by the second: an energy from which the long player lives throughout the entire season. From the first drumbeat of the opener to the abrupt end of “Casio (Yak Nda Nda)”, the band from London doesn’t take a break.
But even in the quiet “Afro Ken Doko Mien” the rhythm created in the Afrobeat always remains the main component of their music. From there they take all sorts of branches into soul, electronic, disco, dub elements and whatever else you found on the side of the road on the way to the studio. All of this complements the hot-chip aesthetic prominently featured and brilliantly complementing the sound.
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