Dépaysé [Orange LP]

Pressed on orange vinyl Includes digital album (link will be emailed once order has shipped) Side A: 1. Everybody 2. Everyone 3. On Being 4. Dépaysé Side B: 5. Ya Sudan 6. Stranger 7. Be Here Now 8. The Searching 9. Mango   Sinkane is unique in that he is one of a very few artists that has a real, tangible, physical stake in our current cultural and political climate, and it shows in the music. For the new album Dépaysé (a French word meaning “to be removed from one’s habitual surroundings.”) Ahmed Gallab didn’t just write a few protest songs in the style of the familiar Sinkane sound. Rather, you can FEEL the difference, the change that has taken place in the art. The falsetto of the earlier records is almost entirely gone in favor of an aggressive, clearly stated tenor. There is almost nothing in the lyrics that is ambiguous or even difficult to understand, and even the music’s poppier moments are confrontational and bombastic. And while the new album is reflective of what