Doko mien

"Ibibio Sound Machine's trademark sound - a groove-driven melange of styles which also takes in gospel, funk, post- and electro-punk and contemporary R&B, alongside African polyrhythms, horns and guitar - is lively and luxurious enough for the eight-piece outfit to pursue next-level popularity with their third album. Pulling together the band's pile-up of influences is London-born, Nigerian-bred vocalist Eno Williams, who on Doko Mien convincingly shape-shifts between conventional power-diva, sultry R&B singer, the feral frontwoman of a post-punk girlband and pidgin English-speaking yarn-spinner, all the while maintaining her own distinctive vocal character".

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"Taken as a whole, Doko Mien is two things at once: An assertive collection of forceful dance tunes that defies listeners to sit still, and the most sonically ambitious offering in Ibibio Sound Machine's catalog".

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"The group's music pulls its grooves from the rich pool of dance music history ... But it's the presence and vocals of the ensemble's Nigerian frontwoman, Eno Williams, that helps center the music's intent. Singing, as she often does, in the Ibibio language, Williams vividly calls back to the impact that her homeland has had on her lyrics of spiritual and emotional longing".