As a songwriter, Adrian Younge seems to have lived a thousand lives over the past 25 years, stretching his vintage-focused creativity across countless genres, formats, and mediums—not to mention various album series to bring order to some of these musical personas. Younge recently announced the third and final installment in his Something About April series, which dates back to 2011 and has long served as an outlet for psychedelic soul soundtracks to fictional art-house films from the 1970s, spanning France’s post–new wave comedown to American Blaxploitation (he’s the man who scored Black Dynamite, after all).
Backed by a 30-piece orchestra, and aided by vocalists singing in Portuguese, the new album’s latest single “Ainda Preciso do Sol” continues Younge’s revisionary agenda of backing these imaginary films with an appropriately vintage soundtrack bolstered by the modernity of instrumental hip-hop. “This song is my take on what Brazilian hip-hop would have sounded like in ’72,” he shares, closing the loop he opened 14 years ago with a trilogy that’s inspired a slew of big-name rap producers to sample his work. In fact, he even goes on to note that the track was made as something of an homage to “Sirens,” a cut from the trilogy’s initial installment.
Check out the visual for the track below, and pre-order the LP here.
