Evenfall: [noun] The onset of evening; dusk.
Peckham-born alchemist Sam Akpro announces his debut album, Evenfall set for release on 28th March via ANTI-. Evenfall‘s ten tracks promise to craft an immersive sonic world, rich in mood and atmosphere – a flowing tapestry of South London noir that’s serrated yet dream-like, psychedelic yet pounding with intent.
Launching today alongside news of the album is its lead single and title track ‘Evenfall’ which fuse shoegaze-tinged guitars, an insistent beat and Akpro’s searching vocal. He describes it as existing: “somewhere between a before and after space in time, where moments have passed & where events are yet to take place.”
‘Evenfall’ comes accompanied by a stunning introductory visual – directed by Pedro Takahashi, who worked with Akpro previously on the MVA-nominated video for ‘Death By Entertainment’ – that perfectly sets out the dusky, inner-city soundscapes of the wider album. It evokes the early hours loneliness of a metropolis that never sleeps, where streams of late-night traffic rush past static underpasses, scenes of stillness and tension colliding.
Speaking on the video, Takahashi offers: “
‘Evenfall’ is a culmination of all the videos Sam and myself have collaborated on….Thematically, the video is about fading away in a city that is hard to live in. The idea is to express that if you pick out any individual in this city of millions, you’ll find that everyone has their own grand internalised life, full of hopes, fears, dreams and failures.”
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