Description
Release Date Friday 30th October 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Songs for Sinners is an album about the push and pull of belief: running toward something,
running away from it, and living in the charged space between the two. Throughout this LP
— his second solo album and first in six years — Moses Boyd doesn’t preach or offer
answers. Instead, he makes a record that treats faith as something deeply personal,
unstable and human — a force that can comfort, unsettle, divide and restore. Gospel is part
of the language, but not the whole sentence. Across a vocal-heavy set that folds together
jazz, soundsystem culture, 808s, choir harmonies and Caribbean rhythm, Boyd asks what
sacred music can sound like without arbitrary rules boxing it in.
Boyd is already one of the most inventive figures in music: a MOBO Award winner, Mercury
Prize-shortlisted artist and a drummer, composer and producer who has spent years
expanding the possibilities of jazz without ever treating the genre as a museum piece. A
decade after “Rye Lane Shuffle” helped introduce his restless imagination to a wider
audience, Songs for Sinners feels like a return and a leap forward — an album that
reintroduces Boyd as a brilliant player and singular artist with a vision that reaches beyond
category.
Musically, Songs for Sinners is as open-ended as its themes. It is gospel-influenced, but not
in the traditional sense. The album moves through different textures with ease: bruised jazz
chords, bass-heavy soundsystem weight, electronic pulses, organ swells, handclaps, choral
lift and moments of raw, communal singing.
Tracklisting
1. Precious
2. War - Moses Boyd, Raelle
3. More To Life - Moses Boyd, Shantéh
4. Say Yeah
5. Saviour
6. Criticise - Moses Boyd, Amber Simone
7. Praise
8. Guess I'll Be Alright
9. I Surrender All (Interlude)
10. I Surrender
11. It Is Well
12. I Believe
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