Kokoroko

This octet’s music will make the perfect addition to a sweltering summer afternoon — as long as it doesn’t rain that day. But if it does, Kokoroko sound is so bright and sunny that you won’t feel a single raindrop touch your head, and you’ll have the rainbows eating out of your hand. Floating seamlessly between afrobeat and smooth jazz, Kokoroko are anything but rushed, simply enjoying the music and basking in the warmth of their nostalgia. Crack Magazine writes, in a review of their debut LP Could We Be More (2022): “It’s clear that looking to the past is providing this south London band a bright future.”