Sir Kojey Radical is his name, vibrant, far-reaching creation is his game, and inevitable knighthood seems almost impossible to avoid at this point in his influential cross-creative expedition, directing a cultural movement from South London. A wave of concurrent musical projects that first caught our attention with a guest spot on friend and collaborative jazz vocalist, Poppy Ajudha’s February FEMME, Kojey has since (and also before) been on an absolute rampage to bring his voice center stage at a global scale. 

 

Following it up with the explosive March release of If Only, a poetic verse on MJ Cole’s electrifying Soak It Up, another friendly feature on Jay Prince’s Love Is, his most successful single to date, Water featuring the unmistakable Mahalia and subsequently an appearance on her Seasons EP, and a double single, 97: Pure, the man has leveled up to legend, earning a firm grip around the UK’s wheel of blendaline post-genrefication in the process. 

 

And now, he’s struck again with what he’s calling ‘one of the best records of all time,’ Coming Home. Teaming up once again with friend and producer, Swindle who also composed Water, Kojey is of course bold in his self-delineation, but is not off-base in his confidence. Coming Home is undeniably anthemic, epic, and in all likelihood, classic. 

 

Matching the orchestral brass brilliance of Swindle’s production, Kojey finds himself equal parts loud, proud, laudable, poetic, and all-around goddamn inspiring, switching and adjusting his vocal and lyrical delivery throughout the track’s duration in form few others could muster. In result, Coming Home certainly makes its play as one of the more unique bouts of self-confidence and positivity in recent memory, bringing a whole lot of upbeat sunshine to our colder months.