Cocoa Sugar is the third studio album by Scottish indie group Young Fathers. It was released on Ninja Tune on 9 March 2018. It won the Scottish Album of the Year Award for 2018. It peaked at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart.
Artwork The album art, designed by Tom Hingston and photographed by Julia Noni, features band member Alloysious Massaquoi and is a direct homage to the Waldemar Świerzy's Polish poster for the 1969 drama film Midnight Cowboy.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 87, based on 21 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Clayton Purdom of The A.V. Club described the album as "a worthy progression, a tight stretch of otherworldly melodies, ramshackle percussion, and buzzing clouds of woozy ambient sound."
Accolades Publication Accolade Rank NME Albums of the Year 2018 PopMatters 70 Best Albums of 2018 The Skinny 50 Best Albums of 2018 Stereogum 50 Best Albums of 2018
Track listing
Personnel David Cousin – additional vocals (track 12) Timothy London – co-producer Graham "G" Hastings – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6–12) Laurie Ross – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6–12) Ben Baptie – mixing (track 5) Vlado Meller – mastering Hingston Studio – design and art direction Julia Noni – photography
Charts Chart (2018) Peakposition
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