An album a lot of you’ve been ready for, Lila Iké steps into a brand new chapter with the discharge of her first full-length album, Treasure Self Love. Out by way of Wurl Iké Information & In.Digg.Nation Collective, below unique license to Ineffable Information, the 11-track mission sees Lila exploring love in its many types, romantic, religious, and self, whereas retaining her toes planted in reggae’s basis.
The album was executive-produced by Lila alongside Protoje. Periods occurred each at Protoje’s Habitat Studio and at Kingston’s legendary Tuff Gong Studios. The result’s a mission that merges reside Jamaican instrumentation, drums, bass, horns, and guitar, with programmed parts and worldwide manufacturing touches and a handful of samples, giving the document a contemporary, trendy really feel.
Treasure Self Love brings collectively a formidable listing of collaborators. World names, together with Grammy-winner H.E.R., Brooklyn rapper/actor Joey Bada$$, and UK soul singer Maverick Sabre, seem alongside Jamaican voices Protoje and Masicka. Her sound strikes between reggae, soulful R&B, and dancehall, reflecting Lila’s personal broad influences whereas by no means shedding its roots.
Among the tracks pay direct homage to reggae and dancehall classics. “All Over The World” ft. Protoje comes with a video shot throughout six international locations and nods to Rascalz’s Barrington Levy-assisted ’90s hit “Prime of the World.” The dancehall-infused “Romantic” ft. Masicka is a brand new tackle Patra’s 1994 anthem “Romantic Name.” On “Scatter,” Lila channels Peter Tosh’s “Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised)” and Garnett Silk’s “Complain,” weaving their religious vitality into her personal imaginative and prescient.
Lila Iké frames the album with a way of religion and resilience, citing Psalm 68:1 as a supply of power towards negativity. In doing so, she not solely honors the legacy of those that got here earlier than her but in addition strives to push the sound of Jamaican music into new areas.
Whereas it carries robust reggae foundations, Treasure Self Love stretches past the style. It’s much less a straight reggae album than a rigorously crafted, soulful, hip-hop infused debut mission that reveals Lila’s vary as an artist and her potential to form her personal sound that feels each rooted and modern.
