So… Young Fathers are breaking out of the ghetto.įor the purposes of this mission, this album, this 'White Men Are Black Men Too', is rock and pop. If you are a blue and green eyed boy from Brixton with the sallowest of white skin you can become the epitome of crystalised soul, itself. In Rock and Pop you are allowed to pretty much be yourself. They have to go to the place where Beck makes a sandwich with The Beach Boys and Captain Beefheart, where Faust and The Fall tango.
When the sci-fi 20’s ‘Urban’ might as well be the atomic 50’s ‘Race’, when R&B has no blues and hiphop is a boom bip with a shorty, a hoe, it’s off to the street corner we go… where does a group like Young Fathers, who ‘picknmix from the popular music sweety shop and fly no flags and swear allegiance to no country’ (© - 100 interviews with the group in 2014) - where do they go? You probably want to know what that’s doing there, right? Well… (breathes) when everything is post post post post something older and better where do the exceptions go? (Exhale).
Please read the accompanying words, straight from Alloysious’ mouth.Īnd then the sticker on the vinyl and CD: ‘file under Rock and Pop’. Let’s get that title out of the way first: ' White Men Are Black Men Too'. “Don’t run away… don’t hesitate for a second”.
