Final month Daniel Caesar was certainly one of many friends on the sprawling Blood Orange single “The Area,” and extra lately he had manufacturing credit on Justin Bieber’s SWAG. Now the Toronto R&B singer-songwriter is teasing his personal new album known as Son Of Spergy, which options Bon Iver, Clairo, Dev Hynes, Sampha, and extra.
The announcement got here with a video on Instagram with overlain textual content that reads:
I’m at present sitting, sweating like a pig, in 98 diploma warmth inside my NYC condo attempting to control my emotional state(my A/C is fried). In each warmth, God has been good. I’m attempting to jot down a letter asserting the album, however I need it to be profound and intelligent. I’ve this secret want to suppose and categorical a thought that’s by no means been thought earlier than. However alas.
After I was little any time my dad was upset in me or felt as if I wanted motivation (or he needed me to grasp him, which I didn’t on the time) he would inform me his rigorously curated however true origin story. He would inform me of the glory days of the Jamaica tourism trade and the way he would sing dinner music at Physician’s Cave Seashore to foreigners from all around the world. How he made sufficient cash to assist his father, a lowly orphan who turned a taxi driver, pay to complete the development of their household house in Saltspring, Jamaica. Together with a Fender Stratocaster and a contemporary pair of Clarks Wallabies. He informed me how a pleasant couple from Canada heard him sing and introduced him to Canada to sing on 3ABN (an Adventist TV station). This is able to spark his love for the nation and later he would go on to maneuver there and meet my mom. He would inform me these tales and I’d hear uninterestedly resulting from having heard them 1000 instances. He would warn me of the hazards this world needed to supply, seemingly nice however in truth fleeting, and would encourage me to heart God in my life.
Being younger is so fascinating as a result of what number of instances does an individual have to listen to good recommendation earlier than it turns into cliche? We resent the cliches of our mother and father till we turn into them. I’m now the herald all I refused to imagine in.
I’m now the identical age my dad was when he had me, and I can’t assist however be embarrassed by how a lot smarter than him I believed I used to be; as a result of I went to highschool in Canada and I might assemble sentences extra eloquently than he might. That’s the factor in regards to the tradition right here (one other cliche), we regularly conflate the sounding sensible with knowledge. Recently I’ve come to a spot the place I understand nobody will ever suppose a thought that hasn’t been thought earlier than, nor will anybody attempt a factor that hasn’t been tried earlier than. All the pieces is self-importance. Household is all the things. Be truthful and forthright in your dealings. Always remember that god is the one everlasting measuring stick for morality. I’m nothing, however in my flesh I’m Spergy’s Son, and in my spirit I’m God’s.
Within the clip, Caesar tags Bon Iver, Clairo, Dev Hynes, Sampha, Rex Orange County, and 646yf4t. Caesar’s newest album was 2023’s By no means Sufficient (to not be confused with the latest Turnstile LP).