“The way so much of the world has been designed has often caused me and so many other Black people psychological damage,” Kiwanuka says. “We so often hear that we are lesser than because we are Black. We are a label, a token, a statistic, and we can be dehumanized. I’ve spoken about it in my music but I wanted to declare in words that I’m so proud to be Black. We are so beautiful and have such a wonderful history of strength, overcoming, talent, innovation, creativity, invention and love.”

Michael Kiwanuka's "Light" video celebrates Black life and power - WXPN

"Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species' only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like 'love,' 'culture,' 'family,' etc."

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"Pure Comedy è la storia di una specie nata con un cervello formato a metà. La sola speranza di sopravvivenza di questa specie che si ritrova su una roccia crudele e imprevedibile, circondata da altre specie che sembrano molto più abili e adatte a questo ambiente è la dipendenza da altri, leggermente più vecchi, cervelli formati a metà. A questa dipendenza vengono dati alcuni nomi differenti mentre la loro storia si svolge, come 'amore', 'cultura', 'famiglia' eccetera"

[...] Then, he uploaded new track ‘Holy Hell’ – a politically-charged but sombre piece of piano-led chamber pop in which he laments “damn the future ain’t looking so bright…”, ending with the reassuring lines: “But all my friends, yeah, I’m talking to you/The world won’t end unless we want it to/There’s no one in control/And it’s our life to choose.”

Father John Misty gets political, shares new song 'Holy Hell'