“Love has a place for you here”
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Yesterday, British-Sierra Leonean singer-songwriter and musician Sampha shared a new song called ‘Cumulus/Memory’. On the fresh track, the Alternative R&B star who owns one of the most recognisable voices, sings about love (”heart beating for two”), healing, relocating to the spacious motherland, trying to attain life-changing results like making it out of the sewer on ‘Cumulous’, and unconditional love, like loving someone whilst they don’t make any sense.
For its second half, where the beat changes up to a faster, dancier tune, the gifted Scorpio (his birthday is a day after mine, November 16) details losing a pair of trainers, or sneakers, on the 293 bus route in London. Then, he goes on to sing about how he cannot let his lover leave him, nor can he lose them like he lost his expensive pair of Air Jordan sneakers.
I know what it is to lose things with sentimental value, so this incredible composition hit a little different for me. If you ever needed a song to match the energy of your unconditional love for another person, it exists. Stream the nearly seven-minute composition co-produced by the GRAMMY-nominated artist and El Guincho below. It’s lovely.
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