The New Faith

'The New Faith' will be released on September 23rd, 2022 on CD/digital and early 2023 on LP. 'The New Faith' tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak, and loss. Learn more: folkways.si.edu/jake-blount/the-new-faith

Blount and co draw on spirituals on this strikingly minimalist album set in a future world devastated by climate change

Jake Blount reworks traditional spirituals for a future setting on 'The New Faith' and wonders what black music will sound like after climate change.

The folktronica singer's voice is battered but lovely, Blount bridges bluegrass and Black southern folk, Sports Team get lost in translation