The farther you look away from the Nigerian mainstream, the more cohesive and symmetrically attuned the music starts to feel and sound. The new Yinka Oshodi single, On Your Way, disavows the frenzied scattergun pace of usual pop and aims for the shadowy, smoky distillation of R&B that has become standard since the 2010s.
On Your Way, produced by BezzyX, has Oshodi demanding that she is not kept waiting with impressive song-writing and an inspired flow that, sometimes, makes her demands menacing – and interesting.
Listen to On Your Way below.