Joy Oladokun – Proof Of Life (2023) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Joy Oladokun – Proof Of Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Forecast – Republic Records

“My only intention,” Joy Oladokun told The New York Times of her fourth album, “is to make music to help myself process everyday life, and to help other people process everyday life.” There is a remarkable lightness and ease to her music, and a sense of humility in her plain-spoken truths and observations. “Keeping the Light On” has an easy-breezy country flavor and honest, no-drama lyrics about battling darkness. “Found a girl and found a job/ Just like they say good people do/ But every now and then/ I turn to salt inside her wound … Don’t deny that it feels so hard/ When the night gets so dark/ Keep keeping the light on.” She also refuses, pragmatically, to give up on optimism on the John Mayer-esque “Changes,” singing, “I was a baby during the L.A. riots/ And I’ve seen cities burn again … And people still don’t understand/ What it’s like to hope again and again.” Raised in rural Arizona, the queer child of Nigerian immigrants, listening to Green Day and Tracy Chapman and Wynonna, Oladokun has a fresh perspective on worlds that can feel confining. She effortlessly plays with catchy, Bieber-style pop on “Trying,” laser-show riffs on the sassy “Spotlight” and mid-aughts folk on “Flowers” and “Purple Haze.” There are also touches of contemporary, Maren Morris-style country on “The Hard Way”—with its thriller line “Jesus raised me, good weed saved me”—and “Somebody Like Me,” which is punctuated with gospel-choir jubilance and a plea: “Can anybody say a prayer/ Can anybody light a candle/ For somebody like me.” Oladokun has said she rejected an offer to duet with country mega-star Morgan Wallen after he was caught on camera using the n-word, adding, “Country music broke my damn heart.” But she’s found her people in her adopted hometown of Nashville including pal Morris and Chris Stapleton, her duet partner on the incredible and oh-so romantic “Sweet Symphony.” His worn-in, knockout voice seems, on paper, like it shouldn’t work with her purity, but true alchemy is conjured as they harmonize. Oladokun also teams with Mt. Joy on “Friends,” Manchester Orchestra for “You at the Table,” Nigerian-American rapper Maxo Kream on “Revolution” and singer-songwriter Noah Kahan for the infectious, glam-emo track “We’re All Gonna Die.” And her voice is clear as a bell on the simple piano ballad “Pride,” as Oladokun declares “Love for my haters/ Dark in their anger/ We won’t apologize/ Sooner or later/ They won’t be afraid.” – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-01. Joy Oladokun – Keeping The Light On (03:43)
1-02. Joy Oladokun – Changes (03:09)
1-03. Joy Oladokun – Taking Things For Granted (03:36)
1-04. Joy Oladokun – Somebody Like Me (03:56)
1-05. Joy Oladokun – Friends (03:21)
1-06. Joy Oladokun – You At The Table (03:50)
1-07. Joy Oladokun – Sweet Symphony (03:48)
1-08. Joy Oladokun – Trying (03:55)
1-09. Joy Oladokun – Pride (03:22)
1-10. Joy Oladokun – Revolution (04:04)
1-11. Joy Oladokun – The Hard Way (04:00)
1-12. Joy Oladokun – We’re All Gonna Die (02:59)
1-13. Joy Oladokun – Somehow (03:54)

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