When you’ve championed a band as long as I’ve been championing Young Fathers, it’s great when they are having hit albums, and in the next few weeks, about to headline their biggest show yet, at London’s Brixton Academy! Respect.

This year’s Cocoa Sugar album, their third, may well be their best album yet, and from the sessions that produced that album, today the previously unheard ‘Cocoa Sugar’ with the David Wrench remix of the album track ‘Border Girl.’ This is a very good thing.

Which reminds me; I must start on my albums and tracks of the year…

Young Fathers topped my annual Festive Fifty with this track last year:

Young Fathers photographed by Julia Noni.

It’s only just over a week until the third Young Fathers album, Young Sugar, is released. Ahead of it, the band have unveiled a third track from the album, entitled ‘Toy.’ It rushes along with the same infectious urgency as ‘Only God Knows’  and yet sounds very little like it. It’s one of the most anticipated albums of the year around 17 Seconds Towers, so here is a taster.

Enjoy…

Young Fathers picture credit: Julia Noni

Long-term 17 Seconds favourites, Young Fathers, have announced their third album.

Entitled Cocoa Sugar, the album will be released on March 9 on Ninja Tune. Following on from ‘Lord’ which was released towards the end of last year, the band have released another track from the album ‘In My View.’

The band will be touring – dates can be found here on their website, including a date at Glasgow’s Barrowlands and theor biggest headline gig to date at London’s Roundhouse.

The album’s tracklisting is as follows:

1. See How

2. Fee Fi

3. In My View.

4. Turn

5. Lord

6. Tremolo.

7. Wow

8. Border Girl

9. Holy Ghost

10. Wire

11. Toy

12. Picking You

…and just for completeness sake:

I’ve long-championed Young Fathers on this blog, first writing about the Edinburgh Hi-Hop trio back in 2010, and being utterly delighted to see them win music awards and have two hit albums.

Their profile is set to rise even higher with their presence on the soundtrack to the jaw-droppingly brilliant T2: Trainspotting. Along with pretty much everyone in Edinburgh I went to see it this weekend, and twas brillig, as Lewis Carroll might have said. Young Fathers have several tracks on the soundtrack, including the fabulous ‘Only God Knows’ which plays over the end credits. It’s credited as featuring the Leith Congregational Choir.

So turn it up, and give your neighbours a treat. And if you haven’t seen them live yet…tusk, tusk.

I’ve long bigged up Edinburgh’s Hip-Hop act Young Fathers on this blog.

February will see the release of their album DEAD through Anticon and Big Dada. This is the first track to do the rounds entitled ‘Low.’ It’s rather good…

More to follow…

I’ve featured Edinburgh’s Young Fathers on 17 Seconds before. Now it seems that the band’s profile is set to rise even higher with the news that they have signed to Anticon, the home of Why? and Doseone, amongst others.

Kayus Bankole, Graham Hastings, and Alloysious Massaquoi have been making music together since they were fourteen. Though they share a hometown with Stanley Odd, their music and overall sound is way different. Comparisons have been made with the Daisy AGe rappers as much as post-rockers. Previous singles include ‘Straight Back On It,’ ‘Fever’s Worse’ and ‘Automatic.’

Last year’s Tape One EP will be re-released as the band’s first release on Anticon. This track is taken from that EP…enjoy.

Young Fathers – “Deadline” from anticon. on Vimeo.

Young Fathers are on tour next week:

8 Oct Hove Old Market
9 Oct London Electric Ballroom
10 Oct Manchester Central Methodist Church
11 Oct Bristol Fleece
12 Oct Glasgow SWG3
13 Oct Oxford The Bullingdon