Loyle Carner - hugo

Released 21st October 2022.

In hugo, theres a central question that Loyle Carner keeps coming back to: Im young, Black, successful and have a platform - but where do I go next? The answer is explored in this epic scream of a third album. With urgent delivery and gloriously widescreen production, Carner confronts both the deeply personal (You cant hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. So how can I hate my father without hating me?) and the highly political (I told the black man he didnt understand I reached the white man he wouldnt take my hand).

Cinematic in scale and scope, hugo is both a rallying war cry for a generation forged in fire and a study of the personal internal conflict that drives the rest of the album - as a mixed-race Black man, as an artist, as a father and as a son. With Mercury and Brits nominations, NME Awards and appearances in global brand campaigns (Nike, YSL, Timberland), Carner has un