Brixton-based artist Wu-Lu is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist, as well as an engineer and producer, whose uncommonly dynamic work as a collaborator and solo artist traverses jazz, R&B, hip-hop, punk, metal, and virtually every underground club sound birthed in his native South London. While Wu-Lu has often been classified as part of London's jazz scene -- due in part to his work on recordings by Nubya Garcia and Zara McFarlane -- his solo output is undeniably vast in scope. It ranges from the atmospheric Ginga (2015), a primarily instrumental beat tape, to the bristling Loggerhead (2022), his Warp label debut, a zeitgeist-capturing collision of punk and hip-hop further distinguished by elements of drum'n'bass, dub, and folk. Falling somewhere between those two recordings is the comparatively measured Learning to Swim on Empty EP (2024).
Hometown
South London, England
Genre
Alternative
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