GRAMMY-nominated East African vocalist-songwriter Somi has released Sometimes Love, the latest single from her upcoming album. Take to Bloom?*, out 7 August via Salon Africana. Recorded in Lagos alongside Nigerian sibling duo The Cavemen., its a groove-heavy track built for keeping your heart open.

The Inspiration

This song is about keeping an open heart and the possibility of finding love in all its forms at any moment in our journey, Somi says of the single, which trades in the same intoxicating warmth as the city where it was recorded.

What to Expect From the Album

Co-produced by The Cavemen's Benjamin James, *What Does It Take to Bloom?* was written and recorded across Dakar, Lagos, Paris and New York.

Where Somis past work has mapped migration and memory across Africa and America, this record turns inward - an intimate meditation on change, growth and self-discovery. It follows the lead single; We;re All Falling, a song confronting mortality that Somi wrote during a season of personal loss.

Tracklist

1. Throw Something

2. Sometimes Love (ft. The Cavemen.)

3. What Does It Take to Bloom?

4. Mama On Blooming

5. So You Want to Be a Woman (ft. Lakecia Benjamin)

6. Aiwah

7. Sugar

8. Mama On Tradition

9. Ngayaya

10. Lay It Down

11. Interlude: Skin To Skin

12. Were All Falling

13. Love Could Be Anywhere

Somi has never been one to fit inside a box, and “Sometimes Love”is proof the next chapter is only getting bolder. Stream it now on all major platforms.