Kojaque has announced his debut album \u2018Town\u2019s Dead,\u2019 which will be released on Kojaque\u2019s label Soft Boy Records via [PIAS] on June 25th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With support across Radio 1, 1xtra, 6Music and more, \u2018Town\u2019s Dead\u2019 is launched alongside its powerful title track and includes recent singles Shmelly<\/em> (as debuted on COLORS), Coming Up<\/em>, and No Hands<\/em>. It\u2019s the much-anticipated follow-up to debut mixtape \u2018Deli Daydreams,\u2019 a concept piece which became the first release of its kind to be nominated for the prestigious Choice Music Prize and took Kojaque everywhere from tours with slowthai and Lana Del Rey to a Boiler Room documentary on the influence of his label and collective \u2018Soft Boy\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Little of which will prepare you for Kojaque\u2019s debut album, \u2018Town\u2019s Dead\u2019: an expansive and urgent tour-de-force that speeds headlong into sex, violence, depression, and the claustrophobia of your hometown. In this landmark project, Kojaque documents a tumultuous love triangle that unfolds across New Year’s Eve, with results that are as cinematic as they are deeply personal. Dark corners of parks, bedrooms, clubs, streets, and psyches are excavated, and pouring over the rubble is an artist unafraid of the vulnerabilities that are exposed when the voice rings true, because there\u2019s just no point in being anything else. Through breakups and breakdowns, \u2018Town\u2019s Dead\u2019 teeters on the brink, spilling from the mind of a singular talent onto streets scaffolded by a broken system but still suffused with love. Listen to the title track, Town’s Dead<\/em>, via YouTube below. This track includes a tasty little Girl Band sample. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introducing his debut album for the first time today, Kojaque writes \u201cTown\u2019s Dead comes from the potential that I see in Dublin and in the people I\u2019m surrounded by day in and day out. There\u2019s nothing but talent and ambition among young people, I\u2019m constantly reminded of that through the art and music that I see being made but I think so often the city grinds you down, it takes your hope and your ambition. I know that it can change because so many of my friends express the exact same wants, desires and frustrations with living in Ireland. If so many of us are on the same page then I know that things can change, there just needs to be some sort of catalyst to kick start that change and for me that\u2019s always been art and music. Time and time again, amazing art continues to be made in spite of the struggles and setbacks that are presented when living here. The title track and the album is a fight against what can sometimes feel inevitable, it\u2019s a rejection of what people tell you is your destiny as a young person in the city, Town\u2019s NOT dead it\u2019s just Dormant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n