Lil Silva Yesterday Is Heavy

• 1. Another Sketch
• 2. Be Cool ft. Little Dragon
• 3. Vera (Judah Speaks)
• 4. Leave It ft. Charlotte Day Wilson
• 5. September
• 6. To The Floor ft. BADBADNOTGOOD
• 7. Backwards ft. Sampha
• 8. What If? ft. Skiifall
• 9. Colours
• 10. About Us ft. Elmiene
• 11. Still ft. Sampha & Ghetts
• 12. Ends Now ft. serpentwithfeet

Over 10 years in the making, ‘Yesterday Is Heavy’ is a cumulative product of an already remarkable career filled with highlights. An album about stepping out: outside of a comfort zone, and, for Lil Silva, outside of himself.

It’s a debut album of heft and heart, but most of all hope – and trusting the process. Buoyed on by the encouragement of long-time collaborators like Jamie Woon and Sampha early in his career (they both implored him to commit his own voice to record), and bolstered by incomparable session experience working with Mark Ronson, Adele and more, the Lil Silva story that started aged 10 in Bedford is beginning full circle. Created primarily in the town he grew up in (and continues to live now), the pervading solace of home courses through the project, while providing the thrilling moments of sleight of hand that Silva has always been capable of.

With ‘Yesterday Is Heavy’, Lil Silva reaps the rewards of over a decade of influence to create the debut album he’s always imagined. Simultaneously riding the line between pertinent storytelling and virtuosic production, ‘Yesterday Is Heavy’ charts the story of one of UK music’s unsung heroes taking his time to build something that is truly timeless. Yesterday Is Heavy, but tomorrow is forever.