Unapologetic, dramatic, and emotionally charged, “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” is an intense eruption of vulnerability and zeal from SIPHO.’s innermost depths – and an simple standout off the UK artist’s recently-released debut album, ‘PRAYERS & PARANOIA.’

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“LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” – SIPHO.

It’s brash, and psychotic, and in your face, however in a cultured manner.

“Taste the bitterest a part of me, ain’t acquired too lengthy ’til I’m lifeless,” SIPHO. sings scorching on the mic, his voice an intense beacon of uncooked power and heated ardour. “So gained’t you do what you stated, earlier than you say it once more?” The air is tense, the beat pressing and unrelenting because the Birmingham-based multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter resolves to let his guard down and share a bit of himself in a soul-stirring, religious reckoning. Intimate, unapologetic, and emotionally charged, “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” is an intense eruption of vulnerability and zeal from SIPHO.’s innermost depths. It’s a churning, no-holds-barred second of fact, eliminating any pretense and shedding all masks in order that we could expertise somebody for who they’re: Human, flawed, and imperfectly excellent.

And – maybe most of all – it’s a fully astounding show of SIPHO.’s breathtaking vocal and lyrical abilities.

Style the bitterest a part of me
Ain’t acquired too lengthy ’til I’m lifeless
So gained’t you do what you stated
Earlier than you say it once more?
Oh, it’s that candy little a part of me
That wishes to really feel you a second extra
So gained’t you want me your worst?
Then lay me down in your curse, your curse

‘Trigger I can’t stay with no regrets
So come and style it on my lips
The bittersweetness of revenge
However I’d nonetheless do it once more
Do it once more
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I’d do it once more, do it once more

Launched as a single in early September, “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” is without doubt one of the standout tracks on SIPHO.’s recently-released debut album, PRAYERS & PARANOIA (out now through Soiled Hit). Following the Birmingham-based artist’s first two EPs – 2017’s I DON’T DESERVE HER (2017) and 2021’s AND GOD SAID… – the 45-minute PRAYERS & PARANOIA finds the English multi-hyphenate rising excessive and sinking low as he explores what dwelling means to him – sharing his personal complexities and the numerous totally different sides to his artistry on a document that’s directly a coming-of-age, an exploration of egotism, and a pointed, essential commentary of humanity at this advanced juncture in our lengthy historical past. Finally, SIPHO. says the album is hopeful – and he himself continues to be figuring all that “life” stuff out.

“I’m neither an grownup nor a baby now,” he shares. “I’m in that house in between. It’s not simply doing society-based actions, but it surely’s about displaying up for folks, it’s the what-if of how I navigate my ideas round life. I need to be grounded. It’s the contemplation and praying to land in place.”

Now I acquired you oozing from the fever
That you simply get if you losе your thoughts
Go ‘head and take a look at anyone elsе
Can’t have my candy sensations
Don’t you cry now, ’trigger it’s alright
I’ve seen all of it earlier than
Stuffed with pleasure now, until it dies out
And it’s all mine, all mine

‘Trigger I can’t stay with no regrets
So come and style it off my neck
The bittersweetness of revenge
However I’d nonetheless do it once more
Do it once more
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I’d do it once more, do it once more now…

“LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” is a very visceral, daring, and unashamed show of humanity in its most unbridled and unabridged kind; SIPHO. performs vocal acrobatics as he declares that he can’t stay with no regrets – which, if we parse the double-negative, is him saying that he can stay with regrets; in different phrases, he’s not against doing issues that will come again to chunk or hang-out him in the long run.

To be clear, this music just isn’t completely autobiographical – the artist needs people to know that he’s not essentially a spitting-image of the music’s unrepentant narrator. SIPHO. says it’s a personality piece, “however nearly part of me.”

“It’s a pleasant little second for me to be saucy and devious,” he tells Atwood Journal. “It additionally doubles as a second of delusion and grandeur. So it does lean into that very human aspect of us, however acknowledges the chaos that may include it. And if you put such a trippy, funky beat to it, you’re asking for one thing particular to occur. You realize what I imply?”

“It’s me being an overt sort of villain,” he provides. “Typically you need to be imply — like, ‘I did this factor for myself, my unhealthy.’ It’s brash, and psychotic, and in your face, however in a cultured manner.”

That class reaches its climax in a fiery, cathartic breakdown as SIPHO. chants an impassioned confessional:

I need you right here to feed my soul
I acquired that factor you’ll be able to’t management
Flows via your physique, can’t let go
Can’t curse me, okayeep your mercy

This music, specifically, is acknowledging that typically I’m the ‘unhealthy man’, however typically you need to make your peace with that data

It’s extremely laborious for people to confess once they’re improper, not to mention once they’re actively making the selection to be the “unhealthy man” in a state of affairs. SIPHO.’s music is mature in that manner, insofar as he admits to being within the improper, figuring out he’s within the improper, and appearing within the improper anyway. These seven lethal sins of Christian teachings come to thoughts… Are there moments, throughout our days, once we select to be gluttons, or succumb to our pleasure? How typically will we let free our wrath, and take pleasure in greed or self-importance?

Radically confident and empowered, “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” holds the mirror not simply as much as SIPHO.’s soul, however to us, his viewers. The artist has delivered on this music a shocking reflection on what it’s to be human, and if we are able to get previous our incessant urge to be excellent on a regular basis, then possibly we, too, can admit to being the villain or the unhealthy man, come clean with our shortcomings and grievances, and stay a extra sincere, imperfectly excellent life.

“LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS)” and SIPHO.’s beautiful debut album PRAYERS & PARANOIA are out now through Soiled Hit.

However I’d nonetheless do it once more do it once more
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I acquired no regrets, I acquired no regrets
I’d do it once more, do it once more, now I…
I acquired no regrets…

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