Sam Akpro shares details of debut album ‘Evenfall’

Peckham’s Sam Akpro has kicked off the new year by announcing details of his debut album, the wistfully-titled ‘Evenfall’. Named after “the onset of evening”, his first full-length will include ten tracks and is set for release on 28th March via ANTI-.

Co-produced by Sam himself, along with his regular collaborator Shrink, the record - which follows on from his 2021 EP ‘Drift’ and 2023’s ‘Arrival’ - features his live band - Cameron Jacobs (guitar), Joshua Lee (guitar), Luke Chin-Joseph (bass), Kyle Creaton (drums) and Taylor Devenny (sampler, keys) - and include previous singles ‘Chicago Town’ and ‘Death By Entertainment’, which were released last year.

Alongside the news of his forthcoming debut, today he’s also shared its swirling title track - an offering that, in his own words, exists “somewhere between a before and after space in time, where moments have passed & where events are yet to take place”. 

It’s accompanied by a video directed by Pedro Takahashi (who also directed his ‘Death By Entertainment’ clip). “‘Evenfall’ is a culmination of all the videos Sam and myself have collaborated on…,” Pedro has said of the video. “Thematically, the video is about fading away in a city that is hard to live in. The idea is to express that if you pick out any individual in this city of millions, you’ll find that everyone has their own grand internalised life, full of hopes, fears, dreams and failures.” Watch the video for ‘Evenfall’ below.