Jake Blount 'The New Faith' will be released on on CD/digital/streaming on September 23, 2022, on LP on TBA, and is available for pre-order now.

The New Faith tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak, and loss.

The New Faith

Jake Blount - Once There Was No Sun

Alice

Fish And Bird (Live)

Enough To Hurt Me

Slow Vibe

Abschalten

And Horizon Me

How About I Be Me

How About I Be Me Pop Mix

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