Today, Young Fathers returned with their first single in four years. It's called "Geronimo," and it's a cathartic build of claps and angelic cries. The new single follows 2018's Cocoa Sugar and is the result of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and G. Hastings recently reuniting for "a run of uninhibited, open-ended studio sessions." "Geronimo" is the first completed song from these sessions.
They've also shared a statement alongside the single:
“A good time trying. That’s what Ma said, she was smiling, but it was meant as a warning.
It’s a track about contrast, because life is contrast - pushing through, giving up, all at the same time. Wanting everything and then wanting nothing, then wanting everything again. It’s kind of reflective of where we are at the moment, trying to remember how to do this again.
Trying to make music and all of the other stuff that comes along with it. Trying to forget all the bad bits, just trying to get somewhere. And that’s where we are right now, trying to get somewhere.
It’s the tenderness in toil, we had expelled a bunch of stuff with a lot of drive and wilder energy beforehand but this one had focus. It widened the scope again for us personally, that’s where the real high comes from. We grew another arm. We surprised ourselves.
So coming back with a track called ‘Geronimo’ feels quite fitting. Just the 3 of us again, but still in a fucking basement.”
Listen to "Geronimo" below.
