SET OUR MUSIQUE HEARTS FREE WHY DON'T YOU 'Ibibio Sound Machine'! Yes yes yes dance-bots. This summer is unraveling quite splendidly with an outpouring of unapologetic dance musique to last us till the end of August when summa's over! Brought to our salvaged musical hearts is a clash of African and electronic elements by The band Ibibio Sound Machine. Their sonics jump from funk & disco and modern post-punk with a sun-kissed electro and American/Brit infused pop tempos.
The name of the band itself finds influence from lead singer Eno Williams and her mother, whose native tongue was Ibibio. Williams was born in London, however, spent most of her playground sandbox days in Nigeria. Her mommy dearest often recounted numerous folk and children's stories from her own heritage and passed them on to her daughter. Williams then wig snatched this inspiration and mashed potatoed lyrics from these sources and married them to modern motifs.
Ibibio Sound Machine is an eight-piece band that also mix and match 1980s Afro alternative beats reminiscent to LCD Soundsystem, Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine, The Cure, and Christina Aguilera's timeless classic Bionic record. We've streamed not one, not two, but three stellar tracks featured below. Dance-rock to lodge itself into your up-tempo skulls. Songs like “Imma” blasts off into the realm of futuristic funk groove. While "A Forest" is a straight rip off of The Cure's same namesake song. YET it's a genius remake of the dark and dreamy classic sending us on a cloud of reverie.
Explosions after explosions of musical feel-good yumminess await. Dipped in horns and synths and guitars. Being born Americans we've always had an innate born and astral connection with otherworldly sounds and languages. From French to J-Pop, Swedish to Latin explosions, this eccentrically eclectic soulful Nigerian language is certainly a new glass ceiling we've shattered for ourselves and simultaneously, in turn, present it to all you honey rockers.
Let's hop aboard and get those boogie boots on and press play on our cultural dance party with Ibibio Sound Machine’s new EP, Eyio!
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