Ibibio Sound Machine are back with their fifth album in May called Pull The Rope. The title track - and opening song - was released as a single earlier this month and I have been obsessed with it ever since. That bassline! That voice!
It was Jez from A History Of Dubious Taste whose review of 2022's fourth album Electricity properly introduced me to the band and prompted me to give it a try. It turned out to be one of my favourites of the year and I've been looking forward to the follow up.
Got To Be Who U Are provided the first taster at the end of January and a couple of weeks later I got tickets for their UK tour, starting in May and continuing in November.
As a taster of what to expect, here's a live performance for KEXP, filmed at the Hackney Wick in London five years ago.
Ibibio Sound Machine recorded a follow up 4-song session for KEXP in Seattle to promote the Electricity album in 2022.
And as an encore, here's All That You Want performed live at the BBC 6 Music Festival, also in 2022.
Pull The Rope is available to order from all the usual places as well as your friendly neighbourhood record store, ahead of its official release date of 3rd May.
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