One Year Later (feat. KeiyaA)

For the first month of the pandemic, Hanif couldn’t listen to music. Then KeiyaA dropped her album Forever Ya Girl! and the idea that new music could be made, in this moment, shook him. This week on Object of Sound, we're thinking back on the exhausting, scary, revelatory year we’ve just lived through, and how the pandemic has changed the need for music in our lives. We talk to KeiyaA about crystals, writing scene-rich lyrics and the music that carried her through these last 12 months. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-keiyaa/ Show Notes / KeiyaA’s most recent album is Forever Ya Girl. Her zine is titled, On Returning My Quikest Language Back To My Mouth.Hanif’s book A Little Devil In America: Notes in Praise Of Black Performance, is set to release March 30th. KeiyaA mentions Slauson Malone’s catalog for his exhibition ‘A star like any other’— at Midway Contemporary Art.KeiyaA’s selects for music made in the last 12 months include “Use It” by Demae, “White Double Consciousness” by Nelson Bandela, and “Clock In-Out” by Cleo Reed.KeiyaA mentions shows thrown by her friends AmaniFela and Maassai. Hanif gives a shout out to Brown Recluse Zine Distro. / Music In This Week's Playlist / I Want My Things, KeiyaA I Refuse To Die, Sydney Sprague Queendom, Girlhood Other Side, Shamir I Finally Understand, Charli XCXBody, Megan Thee StallionWhite Double Consciousness, Nelson BandelaWeird Fishes, Lianne La Havas/ Credits / Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.