Ghostpoet debuts new material at Record Store Day launch.

Mercury Prize-nominated Obaro Ejimiwe, AKA Ghostpoet premiered five new songs at Rough Trade East last night from his upcoming second album Some Say I So I Say Light, due out on 6 May.

It seems apt that the launch of this year’s Record Store Day, a celebration of that most threatened of creatures, the independent record shop (and by extension, the culture that surrounds it), draws upon a talent of one of the most promising musicians to emerge from the British scene in recent years.

Maintaining his trademark laconic baritone delivery, and tense, moody electronica, the new songs also showcased an evolution in his sound, underpinned by an impressively tight new band. The new material sounded punchier, more melodic than before, incorporating discordant synths and muscular percussion, and the superb ‘Meltdown’, featuring Woodpecker Wooliams in unusually sultry fettle, could well be the crossover hit that Ghostpoet so richly deserves.

Setlist
Them Waters
Dial Tones
MSI Musmid
Sloth Trot
Meltdown