“The experimental artist’s sophomore album fuses R&B with pop and gospel”
“Deacon is a rich and elegant ode to love proving serpentwithfeet's untouchable calibre”
“There can be few albums this year more wholesome, soppy or unabashedly life-affirming than Deacon, the second full-length outing from Serpentwithfeet, a man whose many facial tattoos include a large pentagram in a circle on his forehead and the new album’s title in block capitals across his throat. Across 11 varied tracks, Deacon is a doom-banishing celebration of love and friendship, a record bat”
“The Ty Dolla $ign and Björk collaborator’s brief sophomore LP is his gentlest, warmest work yet”
“Experimental artist Serpentwithfeet has a knack for making sense of heartbreak. 2016’s debut EP ‘Blisters’ set yearning to agitated orchestration and silk-spun chamber pop, while debut album ‘Soil’ dug deeper still. The devastating ‘Slow Syrup’ charted a last-ditch attempt to cling onto an extinguished relationship, while ‘Seedless’ cooked up one last favourite meal before an ex moved out. Though ”
“Josiah Wise had already lived a litany of musical lives before his thirtieth birthday. His childhood involved stints in choirs, first singing classically in the Maryland State Boys Choir, which he found lacking in racial diversity, and then in the choral group at Baltimore City College, in which Black people were far better represented, and with which he went overseas to compete at an internationa”
