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Express Your Love (Live From Metropolis Studios) - Kokoroko

Following the success of their 2025 album Tuff Times Never Last and a headline show at O2 Academy Brixton, Kokoroko return with a raw, one-take session at Metropolis Studios. Sharing a never-before-released cover of ‘Express Your Love’.

The London-based afrobeat jazz septet delivers their signature grooves and wide-ranging influences - from 80s Brit-funk and R&B to West African disco - captured live straight to vinyl in their Jack Daniel’s Revive Live session.

This four-track EP also features ‘Higher’ from Get The Message, and highlights from their second album, alongside the aforementioned single, offering a raw, one-take glimpse into the band’s evolving artistry.

Kokoroko: “Cutting live-to-vinyl is kind of like stamping time, you’re capturing this moment that’s not going to happen the same way again. We love vinyl, so it just felt right; doing it in the spirit of some of our favourite records. We’d never played some of these songs like this before, it felt like the perfect way to capture them. We also covered Sweet and Innocent’s ‘Express Your Love’ (such a gorgeous track) and it’s the first time recording Noushy on lead vocals with us. She sounds amazing, and we really wanted to give her that shine.”

3 of these tracks will also be released as a digital EP on the 6th March, pre-save here: https://Kokoroko.lnk.to/livefrommetropolisstudiosEM

Get the exclusive vinyl at Record Store Day 2026: https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/

Follow Kokoroko
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kokorokomusic/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kokorokomusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Kokorokomusic
Website: https://kokorokomusic.co.uk/

Thank you for your continued support,
The Brownswood Fam

Release Date February 11th, 2026
Catalog No BWOOD0453DD
Label Brownswood Recordings
track artist
Express Your Love (Live From Metropolis Studios) Kokoroko 5:30

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Brownswood Recordings is an independent record label founded by the DJ, record collector and broadcaster Gilles Peterson in 2006.

It is a platform for new artists to grow and a space for more established acts to experiment.
Our parent company, Brownswood Music also runs an artist development programme called Future Bubblers, in partnership with Arts Council England.