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With the UK R&B scene never being so good along with the current world we’re all living in, we could all do with a little love, and that’s where you can embrace Pilot, the debut EP from this soul newcomer with lead single Mi Amor.
Having been added to over 641 Playlists with over 100,000 Video views and 9,504 monthly Spotify Listeners, the 26 year old South London-based artist Saint Joshuacrafts a soulful and cinematic sound, immersed in rich harmonies akin to Solange and The Internet drawing inspiration from Frank Ocean, James Blake and D’Angelo.
The EP was written and recorded by Saint Joshua himself at home in his Croydon based flat and produced by CMedina. It’s essentially an EP about love with each song reflecting different sides of love and how it makes us feel with the lead track Mi Amor about a cautionary tale of the games that are played in dating, it expresses the fears of being in unrequited love. “Mi Amor you don’t play fair let’s not pretend you feel the same thing” the chorus is able to be interpreted in different ways depending on the positive or negative experiences the listener has had of love.
‘The EP was titled Pilot for a host of reasons. It is my debut EP and similar to tv programming with pilot episodes. This is my pilot to introduce myself to the world. As the storyteller in the EP, I navigate the listener through the different perspectives of love as a pilot’.
Having premiered his debut single ‘I Like’ on Wonderland Magazine in March along with the Live Acoustic video to follow gaining 13K views to date, his second single ‘Love Is’ was then released in May with an accompanying Official Video gaining over 25K to date. Joshua’s music has been added to over 641 international Spotify playlists such as Heart Radio, Chilled Vibes, RDJ Sweden, 1883 Magazine and Charlie Ashcroft’s Music Gateway Fresh Finds. He has received love and support from Rollacoaster Magazine (2 page print feature in March issue) Record Of The Day, Wonderland magazines Wonderlist, Atwood Magazine, We Are The Guard and Popwrapped, plus a debut radio play from Amazing Radio UK. Both singles have also been added to the instore playlists in over 400,000 international retailers.Joshua is already back in the studio working on new material with some of the most exciting new producer/writers such as CashyBear (Nina Nesbit, Chelsea Grimes), Humble The Great, Jony Rockstar (Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Sugarbabes), Measure For Measure (Dua Lipa, Emily Burns) and Future Humans (Lewis Capaldi) for his 2nd EP/ Album with possible release around 2022.
Most of this influences and overall vision of the album are captured on his new single “Mi Amor,” which we are pleased to premiere an acoustic performance that not only goes along with many of the themes of the song but its setting has this level of intimacy that enhances the track.
