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Connan Mockasin talks hip hop dolphin saga
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 6 September 2013
Odd-pop barbarian Connan Mockasin has given fans a first taste of what his latest LP, ‘Caramel’, will be like when it’s released 4 Nov.
Elaborating the same marine/mammalian motifs as in Mockasin’s last, ‘Forever Dolphin Love’, its narrative (says Connan) “starts with the dolphin leaving, and the boss (the man) who is so in with love with the dolphin is sad, and then it kicks into the new album, and he is happier. But there’s a car race and a crash”.
Grand. With a tone Mockasin says has shades of “Prince goes to Canterbury” (aka soul and South East English psychedelia) to it, it’s also a bit hip hop.
Connan adds: “Maybe it comes a smidge more from hip hop, which to me sounds much fresher than what’s called ‘indie’. Sometimes I’m ashamed to be in a band, or a musician, at this point in time”.
Aaanyway, this is its tracklisting (note the five variations on ‘It’s Your Body’):
Nothing Lasts Forever
Caramel
I’m The Man, That Will Find You
Do I Make You Feel Shy?
Why Are You Crying?
It’s Your Body 1
It’s Your Body 2
It’s Your Body 3
It’s Your Body 4
It’s Your Body 5
I Wanna Roll With You
