Stranger Fruit

Description

Manuel Gagneux returns with a brand-new Zeal & Ardor album titled Stranger Fruit. Blending blues, gospel and soul with heavier music has opened up a world of possibilities for Gagneux. After months spent fine-tuning the tracks on Stranger Fruit, Gagneux entered the studio with producer Zebo Adam and mixer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Kvelertak, Nails). The diverse nature of the sixteen tracks on Stranger Fruit is designed to encourage the listener to dig a little deeper and find their own meaning in its words. Unlike the first LP Devil Is Fine, these songs are deliberately meant to work both lyrically and musically. Although the album inspires a sense of rage, its purpose is to unify, not divide, and to inspire action, not inertia. Elements of sad melancholy are tempered by hope. On the surface, the album tells small isolated stories, but there are also references to Goetia, Yoruba, literature and history.