This is maybe best captured on ‘Ciara’ upon first listen it could easily be mistaken for a love song, as mellow strings and plush tones provide backing to Sudan’s soft vocals. Lyrically, it’s near stream of consciousness, picked up from personal musings that capture her humour, inside jokes and reflections. Sudan dances through genres and styles - “electro-fiddle funk R&B,” she christens it during our conversation - to create a statement on herself, and the many orbits around her. A stunning 18-track release, her longest work to date, it is as much catharsis as it is entertainment. It kind of felt like the end of the world.”Īnd if she made this album to mark the end of the world, she denotes it as epic and all-encompassing. “Because Covid happened, I feel like I wasn't really moving and making music in that way,” she says. Her album was crafted during the pandemic, a rare creative blessing in her case that shielded from the rush and bustle of music industry deadlines. “I felt like I just had to,” she says, as we break into laughter.
When we ask about her motivations for bringing out this new release, her answer is as comical as it is candid: it is partially due to her contract with label Stones Throw. It’s been three years since the release of her debut album ‘Athena’, and now she has dropped her sophomore long-player ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’. When it comes to making songs at this age, I hope I don't say anything that offends anyone.” “Sometimes I feel like I'm inappropriate like I make inappropriate jokes,” she tells us. She is cooly sincere, often casually humorous as she calls from her basement studio, surrounded by rows of keyboards and synthesisers.
Such is the brand of irreverent humour that runs throughout our time with her.
“I needed to go get my weed,” she smiles.
Radical form full#
Donning a purple trapper hat and grin revealing a mouth full of silver braces, she pops out the door of her LA home, where she calls from on a Monday afternoon, reappearing in the Zoom monitor with a lighter and rolled joint in hand. Brittany Parks, the artist known as Sudan Archives, is particularly straight-talking.
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