The long awaited, and much anticipated, second album from Cape Town’s Sakawa Boys released 28 June 2024 through Netherlands-based The Good Times Co. The four-piece makes good on their promise with new music that is being released after a hiatus for the past seven years.
Titled Out of the Dark, the album follows a trio of singles released in April and May that have earned the four-piece praise with Texx and the City referred to the album’s title track as a “triumphant return”, and sits one of South Africa’s much-loved indie acts to centrestage. These singles include “Brain Fog”, a track captures the essence of the modern experience of perpetual distraction and overstimulation, and “Out of the Dark” which co-songwriter John Seth describes as a song about “finding a way out of the dark and over-analysing things”. Both tracks are featured on the eight track album.
“The journey from conceiving these ideas, working them into finished songs, and finally assembling a cohesive record has been a long one,” says the band of the set of songs on their new album. “A whole lot happened in between and, as time passed it wasn’t always certain whether or not this record would see a release.”
“It could sometimes be months between working on individual songs, but each time we came back to the recordings, we felt there was something worth working on and, ultimately, worth sharing with the world.” The sound of Sakawa Boys circa 2024 is therefore also the sound of the coming back together of individuals who are drawn to making music together.
Sakawa Boys comprises John Seth (vocals and guitar), Peter Scott (drums), Skye MacInnes (guitar) and Keenan Oakes (bass).
About Sakawa Boys
Sakawa Boys began in late 2013 and blossomed into a musical project that played live and released music in the years between 2013-2017. Named for the infamous Ghanaian email scammers, from the outset the band’s ambition has been to seek out a sonic identity which honoured their favoured musical traditions without becoming derivative.
