Beloved Black hardcore band Soul Glo – Pierce Jordan (vocals) and TJ Stevenson (drums) – are back with their best album yet, NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT, out from Epitaph.
Following the release of their acclaimed-by-NPR, Pitchfork and more 2022 album Diaspora Problems (14M+ streams to date), Soul Glo toured extensively, including playing Coachella and a set as the first hardcore Tiny Desk Concert. After stage diving off the famous Tiny Desk, Soul Glo recorded at Foto Club in Phil- adelphia, with production and engineering handled by Evan Bernard. The result is the astounding, NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT, a punk ripper that retains the band’s unique experimental edge, with cascading riffs, Jordan’s mile-a-minute vocals and incisive lyrics, and Stevenson’s inimitable drum- ming.
NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT is simultaneously more intense and more ap- proachable than Diaspora Problems, maintaining the band’s breakneck punk base while delving into abrasive hip-hop and noise, with assists from experimental rap king MIKE, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Southern rapper BbyMutha, Tati Salazar of Le Sirèn and Commitment, and avant-garde metal hero Eugene Robinson. Throughout NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT’s fourteen unforgettable songs, Jordan speaks on the Black experience within the punk/hardcore scene and everyday life, resentment, anxieties around relationships, drug abuse, self-discovery, and breaking down the, quote unquote, male loneliness epidemic. He dedicates the album to “everyone who has known the joy and pain of loving a man. All different types of love: platonic, romantic, familial, self.” As you listen, you can hear the love, care, and complication that go into creating a complex and pow- erful album like Soul Glo’s NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT.