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The soulful indie pop cathode ray imagery of "What We're Made Of", by singer songwriter / musician Uwade, stirs up my brain and stuns me with it's beautiful narrative. This is the thing, the blend of things and generational touchstones are so plentiful as to make me dizzy. I feel something seeded from 70's soul pop as much as contemporary blends of folk / pop / soul too like a confessional / attitudinal amalgam of Roberta Flack and Fousheé. But there are also elements here that have slivers of house and 90's post punk and emo, if not exactly sonically but in that important vibe department and why am I thinking of the sideways alternative edges of a band like Lowertown as well (?).
Sometimes my brain goes scattershot and fragments of new songs (to me) coalesse into all these kind of possible seeds. In the end, Uwade's vocal countenance is emotionally deep and gorgeous and "What We're Made Of" with it's soulful orchestrations of sound floating around these lush vocal melodies is so endearing and swaying. Like a dance of pure love and longing with all the required pains, doubts and midnight suffering. I love this song. It is what I call a forever song because as I alluded to earlier, it feels seeded from different musical eras and genres. A pure organic distillation of many things.
"What We're Made Of" exists on Uwade's upcoming full length "Florilegium" that drops April 25th, 2025.
[Over the past few years it seems Uwade has been everywhere, quietly. Her emotive voice is what opens Fleet Foxes’ Grammy-nominated album, Shore; from there she’s gone on to tour extensively in support of the band, along with opening for R&B and indie stalwarts like Jamila Woods, Sylvan Esso, The Strokes and more. Her solo output included a handful of singles, like the buoyant “Do You See the Light Around Me?” and the more somber “The Man Who Sees Tomorrow.” But now, finally, comes a full-length entirely her own, a shimmering anthology that finds sweetness and light in sorrow, an amalgamation of disparate influences and recording sessions seamlessly fitting together through her expressive, expansive voice. 'Florilegium' winds through genre, through death, break-ups, friendship, and failure. Here, she wanted to honor as much of herself as she could — her family and Nigerian heritage, her scholarly tendencies, her background in choirs, the literature that moves her, the melodies of artists like Fela Kuti, Yebba, and Julian Casablancas of the Strokes, who inspired her to start writing songs at the inception of her music-making. Currently in her first year of a PhD program in California after studying Classics at Columbia and Oxford, it’s hard not to draw a throughline that Uwade does craft her songs with a studied, careful hand. Cerebral and curious, each musical moment feels tactile, deliberate, and thoughtful — but also fresh, like something just discovered.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Over the past few years it seems Uwade has been everywhere, quietly. Her emotive voice is what opens Fleet Foxes’ Grammy-nominated album, Shore; from there she’s gone on to tour extensively in support of the band, along with opening for R&B and indie stalwarts like Jamila Woods, Sylvan Esso, The Strokes and more. Her solo output included a handful of singles, like the buoyant “Do You See the Light Around Me?” and the more somber “The Man Who Sees Tomorrow.” But now, finally, comes a full-length entirely her own, a shimmering anthology that finds sweetness and light in sorrow, an amalgamation of disparate influences and recording sessions seamlessly fitting together through her expressive, expansive voice.
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https://www.instagram.com/uwade.music
https://www.uwade.com/
https://www.facebook.com/uwade.music
https://uwade.bandcamp.com/
Over the past few years it seems Uwade has been everywhere, quietly. Her emotive voice is what opens Fleet Foxes’ Grammy-nominated album, Shore; from there she’s gone on to tour extensively in support of the band, along with opening for R&B and indie stalwarts like Jamila Woods, Sylvan Esso, The Strokes and more. Her solo output included a handful of singles, like the buoyant “Do You See the Light Around Me?” and the more somber “The Man Who Sees Tomorrow.” But now, finally, comes a full-length entirely her own, a shimmering anthology that finds sweetness and light in sorrow, an amalgamation of disparate influences and recording sessions seamlessly fitting together through her expressive, expansive voice.
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