SIPHO. Releases Debut Album ‘PRAYERS & PARANOIA’

October 27, 2023 – Buzzy, critically-acclaimed UK artist SIPHO. has released his anticipated debut album PRAYERS & PARANOIA via Dirty Hit. PRESS HERE to stream / download. The album features SIPHO.’s recent single “RUN FOR YOUR LIFE” with Shae Universe, as well as “SOBER,” “THE CHEMICALS,” and “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS).”

SIPHO. has also unveiled the video for new track “PARANOIA,” a sobering, progressive rock led anthem that tackles the current socio-political sentiment in Britain and speaks to those who have turned to conspiracy theories to inform their sense of reality. PRESS HERE to watch the video.

“Obviously we’re post-pandemic but, at the time we wrote it, it felt like we were at the bottom of a mountain, in a way,” shares SIPHO. on the inspiration for the song which he wrote with Eg White (Adele, Florence & The Machine). “We had the ‘partygate’ situation, the start of the cost of living crisis… There was a tension in the air and everyone was being quite weird. We’re living through seriously tough times. It’s all so surreal sometimes.”

“PARANOIA” follows the recent release of singles “RUN FOR YOUR LIFE,” which sees SIPHO. team up with Shae Universe to explore the insecurity of not feeling enough for someone and instead pushing them away, and “SOBER” which unpacks the confident and brash nature of ego while also touching upon its ability to shield vulnerability and foster ignorance. “SOBER” was followed by “THE CHEMICALS,” which fuses rock and gospel to home in on the substances we use to alter our states of mind while trying to make sense of what it means to be human, and “LOCK IT IN (NO REGRETS),” a brash, in your face banger that has SIPHO. embrace his inner outlaw to revel in his own selfish choices.

PRAYERS & PARANOIA is a genre-defying work of art that pieces together the intricacies of being, explores how egotism has come to define the internet generation, and manages to retain hope while coming of age in a complex socio-political climate during a time where disconnecting and filtering out the noise to develop a sense of self is harder than it ever has been before.

The album acts as a refreshingly honest acknowledgment of self-worth, faith, insecurity, and anger, binding together to form an earnest work of art. Outside of the helplessness that paranoia can bring, or the impatience of prayer, PRAYERS & PARANOIA sees SIPHO. filling the voids of uncertainty by moving through each thought and integrating it piece by piece.