Che Lingo drops soul-bearing single ‘Out The Blue’ and announces new album
nme.comChe Lingo has released new single ‘Out The Blue’ and shared details of his sophomore album ‘Coming Up For Air’.The album follows his critically acclaimed debut ‘The Worst Generation’, and will see the AIM Award-nominated south Londoner talk about mental health and anguish to the full extent“CUFA is an intimate and personal look at myself and the people like me who find it hard to see themselves sometimes,” said Che Lingo. “The CUFA album in my own way is to let people know that they aren’t alone in these trials”.In anticipation of his follow-up record, Lingo has released ‘Out The Blue’; a sombre track to help “break out of the cycle of pressures, inherited and personal, that he and so many suffer from”.Speaking of what inspired the song, Lingo talked of “Times where I felt like I was drowning, fighting things, emotionally and mentally I couldn’t even see and repeating that cycle…This is a story about times like that and how I sung and rapped my way through it.
You’re not alone. Trust me.”Director Reece Selvadorai described the “special” experience of working on the video.“Giving Che the motion to express his feelings through underwater movement,” said Selvadorai. “We wanted to depict the struggle physically while we allow the audio to connect with the visuals giving the viewers an insight into Che Lingo”.This follow’s Lingo’s previously released single ‘My Radio’, which features rock royalty Queen and amassed a million streams in two weeks.‘Coming Up For Air’ will be released on April 6 on Idris Elba’s 7Wallace label.
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