Sinkane previews new album He's Gone with Mdou Moctar collaboration, "So It Goes"

He's Gone was written after the death of Gallab's father, and delves into the process that follows: grief, memory, faith, family, and learning how to live without someone who defined your world. "So It Goes" arrives as the first preview of the album. Named after the refrain that follows every death in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, the song draws on the novel's idea that all moments in time exist simultaneously, with death being only one moment among countless others in which a person is still alive. "After my father died, I found that strangely comforting," Gallab says. "Maybe being gone doesn't mean every version of you is gone." "I wanted the song to feel like an East African psychedelic fever dream," he continues. "I asked Mdou Moctar to play the guitar solo, and he took it somewhere wonderfully unexpected. There's something beautiful about a song about death feeling so full of life." The songs blend Sudanese pop, East and West African music, dub, Brazilian and Caribbean influences, 808s and live percussion into one sound. Gallab cites Sade's elegant economy and D'Angelo's Voodoo among the record's touchstones, alongside Erykah Badu, SAULT and contemporary Afrobeats. Whil...