World's End FM

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But it comes with mass altruism, and it comes with the alcoholism, the partying, having too much fun.

With cult British brands drawn to Hak’s warm character and also his grit and political stance, Hak has also collaborated with legendary photographer Rankin on his first HUNGER cover, Fred Perry and Levis. While it’s entirely authentic, there’s also a clear sense that Baker’s friendly, street storyteller persona provides him with a vital outlet.However, what they do when people are suffering is intensify the suffering: they make things more expensive, more uninhabitable. What I’ve developed throughout my time of writing music is a channel, a pathway where I stop thinking when it comes to making music and my subconscious opens out,” he says. Featuring a voice note from his mother about the “loss of values” within British Black youth whilst addressing Hak, the song is a powerful ode to lost souls and the real motherland; Jamaica. Hak’s tales of inner city London life climb a spectrum between youthful nihilism and male vulnerability, to understanding that within the personal lives the political, as Hak paints a picture of a country in turmoil through his poetic lyricism. Though I live in the western side of the world and I’m a product of westernisation, from slavery to living in London and being a London lad, I’m completely against it.

A true statement of his capabilities, ‘World’s End FM’ is styled as a kind of alternative universe pirate radio broadcast. Its hook cries “all we’ve got is a night now / To better our cause”, reflecting Baker’s knack for creating powerful, moving and decidedly non-corny protest music. Without the lower echelons, which is the base and the foundation, things crumble, so look after that.As Hak Baker sways and strums his way through the final notes of fan favourite track ‘Venezuela Riddim’, he’s met with a sea of colour. Opening The Other Stage at Glastonbury last year, and performing at Boomtown, 6 Music Festival, Field Day, Live at Leeds and previously supporting the likes of Celeste, Slowthai, Chronixx, Pete Doherty, Wolf Alice and Plan B, Hak Baker also became the face of the Dr Martens mural in East London, playing a raucous show for the punk shoe brand, as well as being chosen as the face of Fender’s American II Collection, collaborating with British Jamaican designer Nicholas Daley.

As I get older, I know that that’s innately what I’m really trying to fall back on: alcoholism is something I’ve used to not go crazy. Horan’s emotional acuity, his musicianship, and confidence in his own instincts are there for all to see.Telephones 4 Eyes’ is an angsty three-minute punk romp decrying surveillance culture and our addiction to our phone screens, while ‘Bricks In The Wall’ is a cathartic, uplifting fightback against the state’s decimation of working-class institutions and opportunities. As a whole, World’s End FM feels nostalgic (for fans of Jamie T, Just Jack, Bloc Party, and The Streets), but given a fresh polish and shine. I know what’s going on, I see what’s going on and I document it, and I talk about it in the most visceral, honest, human way. The fact Horan can then pull off “Save My Life”, a pacey Eighties thriller complete with jubilant sax noodling, is even more impressive.

I wanna slow down a bit, enjoy the sun and go to my country that has been left in tatters from foreign politics,” he says. Songwriting at its most illicit, the punchy vocal on ‘Telephones 4 Eyez’ is offset by the anthemics of ‘Brotherhood’ for example, or the beautiful introspection of ‘Almost Lost London’. The pirate radio format, which stems from the influence Baker took from stations like Deja Vu and Rinse during his school days, facilitates important conversations about mental health, politics and social media addiction. The genre-hopping influences are distilled into something unified and unique, rough-hewn tales of life on the fringes.Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go. The debut album from London’s finest, Hak Baker –‘Worlds End FM’ represents the war in Hak’s mind, the culture war on the streets of London and the individual battles of his community – from his mother to his brother to his best friends. Because [gentrification] came in such an influx, now what’s there are strangers in our land who refuse to delve into anything that was there before them.