Navy Blue - "224" from the 2020 album Song of Sage: Post Panic! on Freedom Sounds.

Skateboarder/graphic designer/streetwear model Sage Elsesser explores his musical side under the alias Navy Blue. Last year's full-length, Àdá Irin, was a confident debut (read KEXP's Martin Douglas' review here), and less than a year later, he returned with his sophomore album, Song of Sage: Post Panic!, another collection of introspective hip-hop. As Martin describes it in the February edition ofIn Our Headphones, it's "an illuminating tapestry of meditations on self-harm, colonization and ancestral weight, gentrification, anxiety attacks, the grief we carry throughout our lives, and the ties that bind Black people together." 

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Navy Blue - "224" from the 2020 album Song of Sage: Post Panic! on Freedom Sounds.
Skateboarder/graphic designer/streetwear model Sage Elsesser explores his musical side under the alias Navy Blue. Last year's full-length, &Agrave;d&aacute; Irin, was a confident debut (read KEXP's Martin Douglas' review<a href="https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/3/27/album-review-navy-blue-explores-depths-his-soul-debut-album-ada-irin/"> here</a>), and less than a year later, he returned with his sophomore album, Song of Sage: Post Panic!, another collection of introspective hip-hop. As Martin describes it in the February edition of<a href="https://www.kexp.org/read/2021/2/12/our-headphones-madlib-navy-blue-duval-timothy-yanna-TSHA-sibusile-xaba/"> In Our Headphones</a>, it's "an illuminating tapestry of meditations on self-harm, colonization and ancestral weight, gentrification, anxiety attacks, the grief we carry throughout our lives, and the ties that bind Black people together."&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2021/2/23/navy-blue-224/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

From independent music station KEXP, In Our Headphones brings you the songs DJs, artists, and others just can't get enough of. Join host Evie Stokes and guests as they introduce you to new music, with added insight into the artists behind the records.

From independent music station KEXP, In Our Headphones brings you the songs DJs, artists, and others just can't get enough of. Join host Evie Stokes and guests as they introduce you to new music, with added insight into the artists behind the records.

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In Our Headphones

From independent music station KEXP, In Our Headphones brings you the songs DJs, artists, listeners and others just can't stop listening to. Join host Evie Stokes and guests as they introduce you to new music, with added insight into the artists behind the records.

From independent music station KEXP, In Our Headphones brings you the songs DJs, artists, listeners and others just can't stop listening to. Join host Evie Stokes and guests as they introduce you to new music, with added insight into the artists behind the records.

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