The Working Day Has A Rhythm Of Its Own
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S.C.U.D. brings the working week into the centre of Attical Sounds Vol. 2: Chronicles of a Nine to Five. Across five tracks, Babatunde Adewole writes about earning a living, supporting family and making space for music, drawing Pidgin and Yoruba into Afrofusion shaped by R&B melody, soul, hip-hop and fuji. The Thompson, Manitoba artist’s everyday concerns give the EP a clear point of connection between northern Manitoba, the Canadian Prairies and Nigeria.
The project follows Late Bloomer, with Adewole returning to the question of what an artist can build alongside a day job. “I built this EP to be the release that proves what I started with Late Bloomer wasn’t a one-time story,” he says. Its ambitions remain close to ordinary responsibilities: money to bring home, faith to hold onto, and a reason to keep moving when progress feels gradual.
Steady
opens with the slow-and-steady confidence of a come-up song. That celebratory mood gives way to the more searching Balance
, produced by Kaypiano. Here, the desire to provide for parents and a child turns the title into something larger than a private wish for calm. The repeated appeal to “make everything balance” holds work, money and meaning together, carried by an Afrobeats rhythm. Family duty gives the hook its weight; the song’s plea is for the whole arrangement of a life to hold.
Karma
moves into a spiritual register, addressing false friends and hostility over a head-nodding groove. Prayer and patience shape the response. S.C.U.D. sets the wish for protection beside the belief that other people’s actions will find their way back to them, bringing another kind of pressure into the record’s account of working life.
On Onome
, Mitche joins him in a salute to a woman with her own income and late working hours. Affection takes shape through a recognition of someone else’s effort. Challenge
, featuring Saskatchewan-based Rooky Kamiz, widens the musical frame with choral backing and a party-minded, nostalgic mood. That Prairie-to-Prairie collaboration sits alongside Mitche’s connection to Nigeria, making the EP’s reach audible in the company S.C.U.D. keeps as well as the stories he tells.
Adewole’s work extends beyond his own recordings: he founded Afrobeats Nights in northern Manitoba, creating another setting for the music and its community. Attical Sounds Vol. 2 keeps that wider activity connected to the person putting in the hours. The record’s recurring wish is modest enough to recognise and demanding enough to sustain five songs: keep building, look after your people, and leave room for a life beyond the shift.
photo by Adira Carter
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