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Formed in 2008, Young Fathers recorded their first album, Inconceivable Child... Conceived. "Straight Back on It," their first single from the album, released on Black Sugar Records, was well received. The NME dubbed the band "locked somewhere between De La Soul and 3T, but re-imagined for the hipster generation".

Framing themselves as a "psychedelic hip hop boy band," Young Fathers spent the next three years touring the UK and Europe. By the end of 2011 Young Fathers had left Black Sugar Records and released a mixtape, Tape One, as a free download and limited edition cassette in November 2011. In September 2012, Young Fathers signed to Anticon. The band re-released Tape One on the label in January 2013. On 20 June 2014, Young Fathers won the 2014 Scottish Album of the Year Award for their 2013 EP Tape Two and on 29th October 2014, they won the prestigious 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize for their debut album Dead. On November 2, Dead entered the official top 100 UK album chart for the first time, four days after their Mercury success, debuting at 35.

Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings met as kids and set their bodies against the tide. From the beginning they were obstinately not going to do what was expected. Under disparate influences that ranged from Enya to Suicide, they began to create the unique sound of their early albums, Tape One, Tape Two, the Mercury Award-winning DEAD, and then the face slap to the world, White Men Are Black Men Too and their second SAY Award winner, Cocoa Sugar, where the sound was refined and almost bent back, like a disjointed thumb, into an unnatural position.

Their forthcoming album is entitled, Heavy Heavy. The title could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound... or it could be a nod to the natural progression of boys to grown men and the inevitable toll of living, a joyous burden, relationships, family, the natural momentum of a group that has been around long enough to witness massive changes. This new album nails together a collage of influences, ideas, ages and scenes, all bound together with unrestrained energy, passion and soul. And it seems, right now, the most radical thing to do is to have some Soul.

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