London based emcee/spoken word Artist/educator Christian Foley is back with his new EP, COMMUNICATION

‘Communication’ is the second part in a three part trilogy, from London based Christian Foley, following the ‘Ex‘ EP and preceding a full-length album, ‘Excommunication’. This EP is one of contradictions and oppositions, with three of the four tracks split in two, containing not only contrasting production but entirely different moods and stories.

Mortality is a theme that runs throughout ‘Communication‘, or more specifically – the frailty of it. Foley knows how to tell stories, and how to put words together, but more than that, the words themselves continually hint at undertones of depression, numbness and escape, even while delivered with joyous thrill. It is an EP of contradictions.

On ‘Communication’ it’s unclear who Foley is communicating with, but his pleas are haunting,

“I can’t change the present, and I can’t change time, but maybe I can change your mind”,

It is some kind of realisation that while Foley cannot change his situation, he tries to change his, or someone else’s approach to it. It is these words that close the album. Before them, is a dissection of fear,

“I’m scared of being only millimetres from the edge, one drop from a flood, one cut, till I’ve bled out, I am a rainstorm away from a landslide/snowflake from an avalanche, one more and then a man dies”.

‘Communication’ from first to last note is someone fighting their own killer, an artist with demons, who has used them to create a haunting, masterful project, one which employs narrative ingenuity over hard-hitting production. There are hidden gems that demand repeat plays, even the tracklist has a coded message, betraying the purpose and inspiration of the EP.

Christian Foley – Communication EP via iTunes/Spotify

Watch the recently released visual to the track ‘Nights’, produced by Rob Kelly, taken from the EP below.

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