Childhood – Universal High - New Vinyl Record 2017 Marathon Artists UK Pressing on Colored Vinyl with Download - Soul-Pop / Funk

Street Date: 8/4/17

Universal High, Childhood's new album and the follow-up to 2014 debut Lacuna, is a stark reflection of Ben's ups and downs. It's about how the little pocket of southeast London where he was raised has changed for the worse; how a cloud-nine relationship can go to pieces; how complicated everything gets when the mid-twenties hit. But it's not a glum record. Steeped in sun-drenched soul, at first glance it's a sunny-side-up soundtrack to golden times—which is why many are calling it a big reinvention. Lacuna had its head in the clouds, glazed in a psychedelic wall of noise. Universal High is cleaner, boasting sax sections, falsetto vocals, and crisp rhythm sections. It sounds like a completely different band. And taking the groove-led songs at face value, they sound free and invincibly happy.