Jordan Rakei What We Call Life LP

17 sept 2021

Jordan Rakei is the multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer with a soulful, jazz and hip-hop driven sound who recalls wide-ranging influences from past legends such as Curtis Mayfield, Jeff Buckley, D’Angelo and more contemporary peers Tom Misch, Moses Sumney, The Internet and Hiatus Kaiyote. Previous albums “Origin” (2019) and “Wallflower” (2017) on Ninja Tune cemented his worldwide reputation as a modern soul icon in the making. “What We Call Life” is Jordan Rakei’s most vulnerable and intimate album to date. Its lyrics concern the lessons he learned about himself during therapy, a journey that began two years ago when he started reading about the ‘positive psychology’ movement. Besides being a lyrical step forward, What We Call Life expands Jordan’s sonic vocabulary too. While the heart of the record will be familiar to fans of his neo-soul and hip-hop-infused work, here Rakei dives deeper into his sound, merging electronic with acoustic, and rugged grooves with ambient atmospheres, to create something richer, more detailed, and more textural than before