Black Focus

Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics engineered and recorded most of it; Williams said Dayes knew Catto, they used his studio for a few weeks, and then he offered to engineer and produce. Eric Lau and Richard Samuels engineered and produced other tracks, Guy Davie mastered it, and Shabaka Hutchings (saxophone), Yelfris Valdes (trumpet), Mansur Brown (guitar), Tom Driessler and Kareem Dayes (bass) and the spoken-word artist Gordon Weddenburn appear. The cover bears the band name in Haji Noor Deen's Arabic calligraphy.

Williams told Passion of the Weiss the band recorded by ear rather than with programmed parts, having played the set live for about a year, and that it began as his trio with Dayes added later. Dayes said the title refers to your typical South London car, a Ford Focus seen outside the studio, and to the appropriation of black culture and music inspired by jazz. All tracks are credited to Dayes and Williams. It reached 13 on the UK jazz and blues albums chart by one account (other articles say 26), and Metacritic scores it 82. Clash gave it 9 out of 10, calling it rhythmic improvisation incarnate; Exclaim! gave 8; Crack gave 7, finding it a little too languid. It placed on year-end lists at Time Out London (13), Bandcamp (22) and Clash (24).