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TONY NJOKU

Last month London-based avant-pop producer Tony Njoku revealed the enrapturing '100% For Beauty'. Following up with today's offering '</3', Njoku has announced details of his forthcoming new EP titled JUSTINE, which will arrive on the 19th of June via Silent Kid Records. Pairing jittery electronic beats with warped vocals, remnants of a recognisable pop poke through the scattered soundscape at various points throughout the EP's closing track. As its title suggests, "('</3' is about that heavy heartbreaking feeling of having your trust and love broken. When someone doesn’t know how to love or be loved they will often sabotage that situation. Despite the sort of uplifting instrumental and melody in the verse the heaviness comes in the breakdown / chorus part. It all goes back to the life script. Why do we make certain decisions that don’t benefit us in life? What stories do we tell ourselves about who we are? How do those stories play out and how aware are we about them?" Listen here now. -Holly Mullineaux 

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