Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Maureen Sickler engineered it and Guy Davie mastered it. The musicians had no written music and recorded without headphones, not separated in the room, and Hutchings later added horn lines and composed melodies over the raw sessions. He played clarinet, shakuhachi, flutes, quena and svirel, with Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, Nduduzo Makhathini, Esperanza Spalding, Marcus Gilmore, Brandee Younger, Floating Points and Andre 3000 among the players, plus vocal guests Moses Sumney, Saul Williams, Laraaji, Eska, Lianne La Havas and Elucid. Hutchings described it as the next sentence in a long-form poem following Afrikan Culture, and said each title marks a stage of paradigmatic rupture and the ritualistic possession needed to begin revitalization.

It reached number one on the UK Jazz and Blues chart and 91 in Belgium, and Metacritic scored it 84. Mojo gave 4 of 5 and called it a delicate, inward-facing set, Spin gave B-plus, and Louder Than War 4.5 of 5. Mojo ranked it 12th and Uncut 18th among 2024 albums. Singles were "End of Innocence" (video by Phoebe Boswell) and "I'll Do Whatever You Want".