Young Fathers - Geronimo

Deaf to the sound of the dollar and pound.

Album: Heavy Heavy (4th album)
Genre: Indietronica, Art Pop
Single Release: July 12th 2022 (lead single)
Album Release: February 3rd 2023
Length: 3:33
Producer: Graham Hastings
Vocalist: Young Fathers
Label: Ninja Tune

Live on KEXP in 2023


Live at Rough Trade in 2023

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 3 million
YouTube Music: Over 200 thousand

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• White Men Are Black Men Too is the second album from Young Fathers and features a move away from the alternative hip hop of their Mercury prize winning debut into a fusion of indietronica and pop. The group are made up of three vocalists, who interchange over well-crafted instrumentals to make an unpredicatable boundary pushing noise.
  
  Young Fathers music is comprised of grizzly, punk-infused rapping that is then blended with soulful harmonies in a way that's jarring. They're a multi-ethnic trio that mix traditional black music with punk and electronica to create an interesting blend of styles that coalesce into a unique sound.
  
  Young Fathers have a closeness that comes from a friendship beyond music. In their promotional materials and live performances they seem quite cuddly, sharing microphones with lips separated by millimetres. It's intimate, even when the music is abrasive.
  
  

  

  Cuddly Young Fathers
  

  
  Ultimately, Young Fathers are a working-class group who make music they love. They don't appeal to the mainstream but have received acclaim from critics. They're also unafraid to tackle big subjects such as race, class divisions, masculinity, and sexuality in a way that isn't reductive.
  
  
  
• 'Geronimo' utilises the clashing punk and soul present in Young Fathers work and matches it with their lyrical themes about harsh reality, represented by abrasive elements, and the nobility in working for a better life, represented by the melodic elements.
  
  "Dressed up just to go in the dirt," is a lyric about how we bury someone in a suit, meaning that we work so hard but end in the grave. While at the same time, the song represent what comes from such effort, "being a son, brother, uncle, father figure, I gotta survive and provide." 
  
  

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