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Written and recorded in three days during thetumultuous summer of 2020, theBlack Plight EP isChicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDϒs response tothe police murder of George Floyd and the subsequentignition of protests and demands for racial justice that swept the globe.
In three explosive post-punk tracks, NNAMD leans intothe heavier noise-rock tendencies of his musicallanguage to explore fundamental political questions ofjusticefor Black Lives inMylife (My life / Whats itworth to you?);his mounting anger against racistpolice violence in Rage (They kill us dead in the street/ Outside so everyone sees / They stand and watch whilewe bleed / Black with a capital B);andaninternalization and reverberation ofa call to action in Heartless (Cant sit around and wait for something tochange)