Name: Grotto
Brand: Wilma Vritra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BTLP127B

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Colour

blue

Colour details

Discogs ID

r23428496

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Carlton

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060906790035

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / blue

BTLP127

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black

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format: No

Cargo

5060906790028

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Wilma Vritra 

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Bad Taste

The second album from the transatlantic duo Wilma Vritra is richly orchestrated, replete with references to faith, mythology, and the cosmos, its 11 tracks grapple with themes of self-preservation and refuge from the world, even as they edge their way to a sort of redemption.

Grotto is the work of two musicians separated by an ocean but undoubtedly operating on a shared wavelength. One is Will Archer, a Newcastle-born but London-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who today records as Wilma Archer, but who you might also know for his writing and production for artists like Celeste, Nilufer Yanya and Jessie Ware. Wilma Archer’s debut solo album A Western Circular, featured guest spots from the late MF Doom, Future Islands’ Samuel T Herring, Sudan Archives and Laura Grove. The other is Hal Donell Williams Jr, aka Vritra - a Los Angeles-based rapper whose tales of graft and grind are often couched in spiritual or cosmic terms. Vritra has previously collaborated with Matt Martians via The Jet Age of Tomorrow, Pink Siifu and YUNGMORPHEUS.

Grotto’s striking cover image is by Swampy, an enigmatic Californian street artist whose itinerant lifestyle – tales of squatting and train-hopping across North America – have made him a demi-mythical figure. A playful image, but it communicates the album’s themes – of a voyage through darkness, and the promise of light at the end of the tunnel.

Grotto

Music GB