serpentwithfeet presents his debut album, soil, for release via Secretly Canadian and Tri Angle Records. soil features contributions from rising experimental producer mmph, sound manipulator Katie Gately, AUSDAP Rocky contemporary Clams Casino, and Paul Epworth - one of the Grammy Award-winning minds responsible for Adele's critically-acclaimed album 21. The project recorded between New York City's WhiteWater production house and Epworth's London studio was co-produced by serpentwithfeet. serpentwithfeet is an experimental R&B/gospel vocalist and performance artist whose growing body of work is rooted in dueling obsessions with the ephemeral and the everlasting - key components of his artistic journey from a childhood stint as a choirboy in Baltimore through his time at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied vocal performance before relocating to New York City. soil is a return to the sensibilities and wide-eyed curiosity of his musical youth before symmetry and sterile soundscapes ruled the roost. With the release of soil the chameleonic serpentwithfeet (born Josiah Wise) rediscovers and ultimately returns to the unhinged version of himself he was sure he had outgrown.

"Serpentwithfeet on yksi niitä artisteja, jotka luovat oman ilmastonsa. Hän ei kuulosta oikein keneltäkään muulta. Wise on klassisen koulutuksen saanut kuoripoika, jonka tekemä musiikki on yhdistelmä gospelia, r'n'b:tä ja konemusiikin kokeellisempaa laitaa, jonka rakenteissa kuiskivat klassisen vaikutteet." - Arttu Tolonen, Soundi 5/2018 ****