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Multi-instrumentalist Brittany Parks and her moniker Sudan Archives is headed somewhere ambitious whenever her next album drops. More recently, we heard that level up on the horizon with the single “Home Maker”, which palettized experimental funk, disco, rap and pop within a culture-crossing arrangement that swaggered in its self-care meditation. With her latest single “Selfish Soul”, she’s again turning toward the inward embrace out, with the track celebrating the beauty of all hair in the face of societal expectations and doing so in her singular fashion of sonic expression. Electric violin rips side by side with the bass body movement that clap back at all the critiques set by these standards. “I don’t want no struggles, I don’t want no fears / Does it make sense to you / Why I cut it off? / Okay, one time if I grow it long / Am I good enough, am I good enough?,” she asks, though not for approval. “About time I embrace myself and soul / Time I feed my selfish soul.” Her look is unapologetic confidence.
Sudan Archives’ “Selfish Soul” single is available now on Stones Throw.