catalogue

STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC

LANGUAGE (GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL)

STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE 121298
format:
1 CD
release:
16.03.2018
label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
item ID:
121298
barcode:
0804297831022
"Black boys have a whole world of complexity that society makes us stomp out of ourselves." Language, Bryndon Cook's full-length debut as Starchild & The New Romantic, communicates his refusal to do so.

Describing himself early-on as a "young romantic boy from Maryland," Cook has long been a dreamer, a student of black music's rich lineage and its intersection with pop.

He's drawn to landmark moments where artists have found truth in darkness; the diverse language of music living in their core.

This record is his; lifting off from the monochrome world of Crucial, his 2016 EP on Ghostly International, up towards a dazzling crimson blood-rush of sky-high defiance and autonomy.

On Language, Cook refines his phonics for funk, electro, and R&B, and arrives at a revelation, best summarized by a single motto: "my sensitivity is my strength."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. LANGUAGE
  • 1.2. MOOD
  • 1.3. ONLY IF U KNEW
  • 1.4. HANDS OFF
  • 1.5. HANGIN ON
  • 1.6. BLACK DIAMOND
  • 1.7. OPHELIA'S ROOM
  • 1.8. SOME PEOPLE I KNOW
  • 1.9. CAN I COME OVER?
  • 1.10. DOUBTS
  • 1.11. GOOD STUFF
  • 1.12. BOYS CHOIR
  • 1.13. LOST BOYS
  • 1.14. HAND TO GOD