Moses Boyd turns Say Yeah into a gospel-jazz mantra bright enough for the sound system

Moses Boyd’s Say Yeah arrives on 1 July with a kind of brightness that feels deliberate, not accidental. The drummer, composer and producer has released his first solo track since 2020 debut album Dark Matter, and the new song points toward a different direction for his music. Boyd connects Say Yeah to his faith, to gospel inspirations like Fred Hammond and Kirk Franklin, and to a desire for a universal hook simple enough to move beyond language barriers. That idea is clever because repetition can be shallow, but it can also become communal. A phrase like Say Yeah can be a chant, a release valve, a call across the room and a rhythmic instrument in its own right. Boyd folds that joy into a spiritual jazz and UK sound-system frame, giving the track lift without losing weight. It sounds like faith made percussive, public and gloriously hard to overthink.

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