Uwade | Florilegium | Vinyl LP - Orange | Signed Copy | Rough

You\u2019ve heard Uwade before. It\u2019s her honeyed voice that opens Fleet Foxes\u2019 2020 record Shore \u2014 an experience that\u2019s since earned her global critical acclaim. Though her career in music is now taking off, for Uwade, 22, singing has always been a kind of prayer. Florilegium, the debut album from songwriter Uwade, winds through genre, through death, break-ups, friendship, and failure. Here, she wanted to honour as much of herself as she could \u2014 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. Cerebral and curious, each musical moment feels tactile, deliberate, and thoughtful \u2014 but also fresh, like something just discovered. A shimmering anthology that finds sweetness and light in sorrow, an amalgamation of disparate influence.