Obongjayar announces debut album with new cut "Try"

"Try" will feature on Obongjayar's debut album with previous outing "Message In A Hammer", and is accompanied by a Spencer Young-directed video.

He says of the new release, "You can be a pilot or an astronaut, it's all so possible. By the time you turn twenty, you realise you’re probably not going to become a brain surgeon; reality starts to set in. That's what the song and this record is about; where do those feelings go? At what point do we lose our innocence, our wide-eyed approach to the world?"

Some Nights I Dream Of Doors will follow last year's Sweetness EP with Sarz, and was recorded over the space of a year with producer Barney Lister. The album will also feature a collaboration with Nubya Garcia .

Obongjayar adds of the album, "This album dives into the idea of opportunity and tries to explore what that means, what lies behind those doors, and asks if we’re ready for it. The pursuit of success, what happens when you achieve it, and what happens if you don’t? What does success mean? The head, the body, and the end of a dream. Opportunity is looking forward, and in that lies the question of time. What is your place in it? To know the future, or to fully be aware of your present, you need to analyse and understand your past. It’s an endless loop that continuously piles on itself."

Tracklist:

1. Try
2. Message In A Hammer
3. Parasite
4. Some Night I Dream Of Doors
5. Wrong For It (Feat. Nubya Garcia)
6. Sugar
7. My Life Can Change Today (interlude)
8. New Man
9. All The Difference
10. Tinko Tinko (Don’t Play Me For A Fool)
11. I Wish It Was Me
12. Wind Sailor