From the moment I heard Yatta’s album Palm Wine last year, I was a fan! Now, today I want to turn y’all on to their new visual for “Put Your Faith in God.” As I watch this video, I think back to my grandmother watching Orville Roberts on TV. What tripped me out as a youth was seeing my grandmother sending this charlatan her money for his so-called blessings. I knew then, and still believe now, that all of the preachers and pastors are false prophets! Yatta’s video only proves what I knew as a kid: fuck organized religion. Palm Wine is out now via the always Rad PTP aka PROTECT THE PEACE Tapes.
YATTA has created an album that’s going to take me into 2025 with PMA! Their voice is hauntingly beautiful, and the way they layer it with electronics makes me envision nature reclaiming the cement structures our “civilization” will leave behind when it’s our time to fade away. Whoever survives will reconnect with our original purpose and create the kind of timeless symbiotic beauty Yatta has infused Palm Wine with. Palm wine is an intoxicant and a West African musical genre, and the name of this record speaks to the intoxicating layers of sound that Yatta has woven throughout their songs, riding rhythms and beats that underpin the history of human expression and the connection to an eternally patient creator. Thank you, Yatta, for making a record that reminds me of parts of us I love in a time where we’re all so obsessed with hating ourselves. “I like who I show you.”
– CVLT Nation
Image Credits: @perea.photo @flockofsiegel
