Bey, Yaya: Do It Afraid - Gold (Vinyl LP)

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Suffering is promised to us all, but so is joy. You have to find peace in that duality, says Yaya Bey, who commits to life's delight - humor, love, the power of human movement and connection - even if she has to do it afraid. With her new album, which follows a run of critically acclaimed releases and marks her debut on art-forward indie label drink sum wtr, the Queens, New York singer-songwriter thrives across uplifting, effervescent material. A rejection of past narratives projected onto her, 'do it afraid' finds Bey reclaiming her story with resolutely fun, full-hearted, and nuanced songs that pull from R&B, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and dance music, including the soca stylings of her family's Bajan roots. Do it afraid celebrates all sides of Yaya as part of a collective lifeforce that doesn't subscribe to fear but to the moments that move us. wake up b*tch, end of the world, real yearners unite, cindy rella, raisins, spin cycle, dream girl, merlot and grigio, breakthrough, a surrender, in a circle, aye noche, no for real wtf?, blicky, ask the questions, bella noches pt. 1, a tiny thing that’s mine, choice