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Ibibio Sound Machine – “Basquiat”

Earlier this year, the London-based band Ibibio Sound Machine released their Eiyo EP, which was made up of leftovers from their 2017 sophomore album Uyai. The eight-member group, which is fronted by Nigerian vocalist Eno Williams, trades in an intoxicating swirl of Afrobeat and disco rhythms.

Today, they've released a new one-off single, "Basquiat," was inspired by the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition that was on display at the Barbican in London recently, and it shares in some of the famed New York artist's frenetic scribble.

Listen below

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"Basquiat" is out now via Merge Records.

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