Wara's debut album is called Leave to Remain. Picture: Julio Etchart
Wara, who celebrated their debut album Leave to Remain last week, are a melting pot of identities with backgrounds that span the world map: Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain and the UK.
The songs are threaded with bilingual, conscious lyrics that inject social and political commentary into their music in a variety of ways including songs that directly touch upon the topics of migration, identity and displacement.
Every generation responds to a band that expresses their anxieties and aspirations. In the 1980s, UB40 echoed the mood of the time with their message about unemployment and immigration.
Thirty years on, Wara are articulating an equally important theme for the youth of today. Our rich and constantly evolving multi-cultural society is under threat from the ghosts of recession and racism, so it takes bold lyrics to challenge prejudices and put across the aims of our layered humanity.
Those urgent issues are touched by Somewhereland, and by the eponymous Leave to Remain.
The album follows their critically acclaimed self-titled EP (Movimientos Records, 2011).
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