hypersongs

Hold On

A soul and R&B track with Lauren Faith's vocal, released as a single on June 24, 2020.
Kamaal Williams, from Wu Hen (2020)

Williams wrote it, and it features the vocalist Lauren Faith with harp by Alina Bzhezhinska over keys and strings; Wikipedia, from a single source, says the lyrics are about universal life principles. Complex's James Keith, premiering it on June 24, 2020, called it a stunning exercise in restraint and noted Faith's earlier work with Kaytranada. Crack heard him trying a smoother R&B sound on it. He told Passion of the Weiss that Faith is, he was told, Roy Ayers' daughter, and that they had worked together about two years before he knew.

Hunger premiered a live session of the song on July 9, 2020 with Williams, Faith and the saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, and a fuller session with Bzhezhinska on YouTube on July 23 raised money for a Stephen Lawrence charity. We found no studio, recording date, artist comment on the meaning, chart entry, video, covers or samples, and we do not know whether our upload is the studio or a live version.

On stage

Sources

  1. Premiere: Kamaal Williams, Hold On, Complex (2020-06-24)
  2. Premiere: Hold On live session, Hunger (2020-07-09)
  3. Wu Hen, Wikipedia
  4. Kamaal Williams, Wu Hen, Crack