Hak’s evocative tales of inner-city London life are suffused with poetic lyricism, occupying a spectrum between youthful nihilism and male vulnerability - the personal as political. With fans from Celeste to Mike Skinner, Fontaines DC to Skepta, Slowthai to Pete Doherty, Hak’s fanbase of misfits and renegades celebrate his anti-genre G-Folk sound. One of the most prominent Black artists in the UK alternative music scene, Vice stated that, “Baker subverts what a British folk singer can be”.
His raw, unfiltered and honest tracks are tailor-made for an era of social inequity, internet addiction and disillusionment, and the fittingly revolutionary minded World’s End FM is a debut album marked by ambition, compelling street-level confessionals and bruised melodies.
Executive produced by Baker and Karma Kid, and compiled from two years of prolific sessions with in-demand producers including Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey, Shrink and Misfits producer Ali Bla Bla, World’s End FM takes the form of a pirate radio broadcast from the edge of Armageddon, crackling with electric energy, from rip-snorting post-punk to lilting roots reggae.
Lock in your Saturday night - the end of the world has never sounded so bold, so life-affirming, or so beautiful.
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