Ezra Collective – Here Because of Hope

Ezra Collective

Here Because of Hope

Their fourth album asks why so much Black music born from pain makes people dance. The band needed the answer for practical reasons

Here Because of Hope by Ezra Collective

The story behind this record is more specific than the concept suggests. After the Mercury Prize in 2023 and a BRIT Award that followed, Ezra Collective found themselves in an unusual line of work. Audiences were coming to their shows expressly to feel good, which meant walking on stage every night as suppliers of joy. Femi Koleoso has been candid that during some of those gigs things were happening, personally and in the wider world, that were painful. The question he ended up with was practical rather than...

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