Santigold - Spirituals

Santigold - SpiritualsSpirituals is Santigold's first full length album since 2016's 99, and was mostly recorded during the 2020 lockdown. "All of a sudden there I was with three small children out of school just turned two year old twins and a six year old I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and changing diapers from morning to night, with three little k ids coming in and out of my bed throughout each night like musical chairs. I was losing touch with the artist me,

Spirituals is Santigold's first full - length album since 2016's 99¢, and was mostly recorded during the 2020 lockdown.

"All of a sudden there I was with three small children out of school - just - turned - two - year - old twins and a six - year - old - I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and changing diapers from morning to night, with three little k ids coming in and out of my bed throughout each night like musical chairs. I was losing touch with the artist me, stuck in a part of myself that was too small. I felt the other parts of me were shrinking, disappearing."

Santigold struggled but succeeded in defining a space in which she could center herself and collaborate virtually with producers and contributors: Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner, SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson . "Recording this album was a way back to myself after being stuck in survival mode. It wasn't until I made the space to create that I realized I wasn't only creating music but a lifeline," she says.

California was on fire, we were hiding from a plague, th e social justice protests were unfolding. "I'd never written lyrics faster in my life. After having total writer's block, they started pouring out. I decided to create the future, to look towards where we are going, to create beauty and pull towards that b eauty. I need that for myself, but it's also there for whoever else needs it."