Naomi Pilgrim feat. Sa-Roc & Yugen Blakrok – Racist
Friend
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| Naomi Pilgrim - Racist Friend |
Release Date: Out Now
So I’ve been lamenting the lack
of protest songs and it appears that people have been listening as the protests
are coming thick and fast – some new and, as in this case, some reworkings of a
particularly apt classic. The Specials first brought us ‘Racist Friend’ in the
mid-80s but talented Swede/Barbadian singer Naomi Pilgrim has brought this
right up to date with a little help from Sa-Roc and Yugen Blakrok. Musically,
this is almost brutalist with some mechanical beats combining with some
unapologetic synth melodies taking front stage. “If you have a racist friend,
now is the time for your friendship to end” sings Pilgrim and it couldn’t feel
more relevant as the world stands at a fork in the road between the path of equality
and acceptance or the path of hatred and division. I know which I’m walking and
now I know what the soundtrack will be too.
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