WITH YOU

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JAKAARLO (EP) out now - https://ffm.to/jakaarlo
LYRICS
​​​​Something better
And you always rub your feet in my mind
And you always take my shit all the time
You’re always walking
And you’re always walking
Ooo Ahh
For you
Ooo Ahh
Something better
Ooo Ahh
For you
Ooo Ahh
Something better
Didn't know it was for me at the time
Didn’t know I had to read over lines
Cause you’re always walking
And you're always walking out of my life
Something better
Ooo Ahh
For you
Ooo Ahh
Something better
Ooo Ahh
For you
Ooo Ahh
Acid rain falls down
I watch it burn
I watch it burn
Watched your face melt off
When a train goes by
I watched it burn
I watched you let go of the things
You signed out
Say you don’t love
Can’t say you don’t love it
You can’t say you don’t love it
You can’t say you don’t love it
No, no, no, no
Say you don’t love
Ooo Ahh
For you
You can't say
Ooo Ahh
Say you don’t love it
Something better
Ooo Ahh
Feet up
Ooo Ahh
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papa mbye writes experimental pop songs threading flourishes of electronic, R&B, soul, and more. Born in The Gambia, raised in North Minneapolis, and a relative newcomer to making music after starting as a visual artist, he’s taken strides in his sound in a short time. With his new self-produced EP, JAKAARLO, he brings his voice into focus, exercising restraint in arrangements while pushing his craft forward. Songs burst with color, texture, and hooks.
JAKAARLO is a meditation on closeness. Not just the kind shared between lovers, but the elusive kind that drifts between memory, distance, and desire. The title, which translates from Wolof as “to be close to”, is borrowed from a song by the late Senegalese musician N'dongo Lo appearing on his 2005 album Adouna. With JAKAARLO, mbye channels that sense of appreciation for the entirety of love, the real and the raw, the fleeting and finite, the spaces between people, tense, messy, and beautiful. Joined by a cast of collaborators, mbye wields layers of instrumentation and voice into vibrant, future-facing material that declares his arrival as both a visionary producer and performer.
The mood board for JAKAARLO spans the music of his youth (Youssou N'Dour, N'dongo Lo) and the boundless off-kilter pop of Jai Paul, alongside mbye’s friends and contemporaries: Minneapolis artists Young Dervish, Vlush, KINFU, and Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Gayngs, Poliça), who contributed on the album. papa mbye’s music rumbles, rattles, and darts between modes, welcoming high-wattage basslines, guitar riffs, and synth tones in a hyperactive, mesmeric mix. At the center is his emotive voice, capable of raspy croon and howling falsetto.
“WITH YOU” is the EP’s warmest moment, with lines like, “And you always rub your feet in my mind,” symbolizing devotion, humility, and like sacrificial love. “It’s about finally feeling grounded, and letting go of everything in the past that wasn't allowing me to fully love this person.” He sings of “something better” as a pulsing soundscape forms around his voice, dropping to a lone piano and static outro.
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