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MOM TUDIE ISN'T RIGHT

We’ve previously featured the 23-year-old producer Mom Tudie with his warm, jazz-laced flavour in ‘Everything You Said’. This time Mom Tudie returns alongside Kwaku Asante for the midnight counterpart ‘Isn’t Right’, which is a buoyant exercise in tempo. It begins as a smooth and spacious track, fronted by Asante’s gently rasped vocal. Together, these musicians build an image of reflective solitude, something which Mom Tudie often experienced while on nighttime bike rides in his home town of Nottingham. As the now-London-based MT recalls, ‘Isn’t Right’ is “about a journey I used to do on my bike, often in the middle of the night, past a graveyard, along a road known as Nottingham’s ‘redlight district’. Cycling in the small hours, while banging some of your favourite tunes, can bring out the craziest emotions.” As the song progresses, the energy of the drums and horn section builds, as though we’re cycling through the moonlit air, alongside Mom Tudie, perhaps to some greater hope. - Hannah Thacker

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