SHIPPED ARRIVING ANY DAY Obongjayar's sophomore album Paradise Now comes to black and yellow colour-in-colour LP, limited to 500 copies and hand-numbered to order. The record is an ambitiously fresh global prospect, with roots grounded in his own wide-ranging world of influences. It?s everything from pop to punk, dance to Afrobeat, funk to folk, refracted through a thrilling new perspective. ?I wanted an album that I could listen to from start to finish on a night out.? But he still considers it something of a Trojan Horse. Recorded between London and LA with UK alt-rap mainstay Kwes Darko ( Pa Salieu, John Glacier) and Grammy-winning production trio Beach Noise (Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, Bakar), the record is as emotionally complex and broad as Obongjayar has ever been, even within its contagious candy coating