Vicktor Taiwò - Joy Comes In Spirit - New Vinyl 2 Lp 2018 Innovative Leisure Pressing with Gatefold Jacket - R&B / Electronica

Street Date: 6/1/18

In a world where art is compromised and commodified, shrunk down and
boxed in, Vicktor Taiwo wants us to open up. The vibrant young singer songwriter traffics in subtle hints and soaring melodies, slow creeps and grand climaxes. Taiwo is on a mission to collect something from himself, and it's a journey worth following.  It is the frigid winter of the year 2000 and Vicktor Taiwo, an eight year old, accompanied by his mother and siblings, arrive in East London after leaving behind the visceral warmth of Abeokuta, Nigeria behind. Raised in a Christian home, his exposure to performing music came as it does for many with gifted vocal ability; honing skills and crafting harmonies in church choirs.  Years forward and disillusioned by his decision to study Law & Business at university, Vicktor Taiwo makes a choice that alters the course of his life permanently. After encouragement from friends and a brief stint as a frustrated photographer, Taiwo decides on January 1, 2012 precisely - as he does with most things - that he would make music his medium.
Once he started uploading his songs online, listeners caught on quickly.
Without label or publisher, he found himself synced on shows like Girls and Dear White People.

JUNO, Vicktor's self-released debut EP, was met with praise by the likes of Vice, Billboard, and Okayplayer for its lean, focused
approach to song structure, and for its withering, poetic lyrics.
Even at such an early stage in his development, Taiwo was finding angles that most songwriters would neglect. At this point, all I really think there is for humans to do is to explore detail, he says. To see how infinite an infinitely expanding universe really is, and how small the smallest particle really is. His debut album, Joy Comes in Spirit, is at once experimental and comforting  collected shards of soul and style reassembled into something entirely new. Due out on Innovative Leisure, the record introduces a bold new artist willing to take musical and lyrical