The Edinburgh native- Mercury Prize holders love to cut songs that cut listeners. Dealing in highly evocative textures and imagery that seems viscerally present to some distant lobe in the back of your brain. Here we see Young Fathers jump back into this head-on, with a sensory overload of timbral inflections that seems both haphazardly disjointed and yet flows majestically from each section to the next. Primal vocal chants and screams lead the song into a celestial territory of raw, unbridled emotion. Check out the song in the video below:

The band said of their latest work; “A good time trying. That’s what Ma said, she was smiling, but it was meant as a warning, it’s a track about contrast, because life is contrast – pushing through, giving up, all at the same time. Wanting everything and then wanting nothing, then wanting everything again. It’s kind of reflective of where we are at the moment, trying to remember how to do this again. 

“Trying to make music and all of the other stuff that comes along with it. Trying to forget all the bad bits, just trying to get somewhere. And that’s where we are right now, trying to get somewhere. 

“It’s the tenderness in toil, we had expelled a bunch of stuff with a lot of drive and wilder energy beforehand but this one had focus. It widened the scope again for us personally, that’s where the real high comes from. We grew another arm. We surprised ourselves. 

“So coming back with a track called ‘Geronimo’ feels quite fitting. Just the 3 of us again, but still in a fucking basement.”

Looking back at 2018s Cocoa Sugar, one review broke down the seminal album, saying; “Young Fathers shouldn’t need to simmer down or spoon-feed what they do to gain popularity or make a better living. They’ve made it this far by being unlike any other band in the country, equally motivated by writing great pop songs and sounding completely alien.”

To which the band’s own Alloysious Massaquoi later mused: “We don’t know if it has connected, but we know that it’s a great album. Every time we go into the studio we do something better than what we’ve done before.”

The band’s Alloysious Massaquoi said: “We want to thank everyone who voted, it’s fantastic for Scotland and diversity in music. This is a total surprise and an honour for us to win it twice and make history. We are obviously a multi-racial group who stand for openness, kindness, and love”.

Robert Kilpatrick, General Manager of award organiser the Scottish Music Industry Association added: “‘Cocoa Sugar’ is a fantastic, world class record, which showcases the band’s incredible song-writing talent and musicianship. Having previously won the SAY Award for ‘Tape Two’ back in 2014, as well as the Mercury Prize in the same year for ‘Dead’, they continue to go from strength to strength, defying expectations and creating some of the best music to have come out of Scotland. A truly well-deserved win from an outstanding, crucially important Scottish act”.

Young Fathers take away £20,000 in prize money for their win, which is nice. The nine other shortlisted acts, included the likes of Franz Ferdinand; Mogwai; Karine Polwart; BABE; Best Girl Athlete; Golden Teacher; Kobi Onyame; Out Lines; and Siobhan Wilson, also receive £1000 each.

Alan Morrison, head of music at Creative Scotland, described Young Fathers’ winning record as their “most accessible release yet, with pop hooks and soulful vocals emerging from their trademark monsoon of global beats. Congratulations also to all the nominees who made this such a bold and diverse year for Scottish music.”

This comes after Young Fathers, who was formed in Edinburgh in 2008 by Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham ‘G’ Hastings, announced a winter UK tour-. The band will be heading out on the road, in support of their new album ‘Cocoa Sugar’, with performances in Glasgow, Manchester, and London. They are scheduled to start their tour in Glasgow, on the 30th of November 2018 and they are set to conclude the six-date tour in London, on the 11th of December 2018.

30/11/2018 – Glasgow O2 Academy – Glasgow

01/12 – Stylus – Leeds

02/12 – Manchester Albert Hall – Manchester

04/12 – Newcastle Upon Tyne Boiler Shop – Newcastle

05/12 – Bristol O2 Academy – Bristol

11/12 – London O2 Academy Brixton – London