Steve Mason announces fifth solo album with Javed Bashir collaboration "No More"

"No More" featuring Javed Bashir is Mason's first release since his 2019 EP Coup d’état, and is accompanied by a James Hankins-directed video.

"This track is about Imperialism and in a subtle way, relative to some of my other work, references Australia, Partition and Africa through a combination of lyrics and music," Mason explains. "I like to imagine the spirits of these cultures and people haunting the families who profited and were involved in their destruction down through the generations. Never giving them real peace. I can never square in my mind the idea of going to a new country with such horror in mind and struggle to believe that those who carry out such deeds are in fact Human. Sitting in incredible splendour with everything around you, dripping in the blood of incredible and ancient civilisations. This subject has been gone over in depth by many highly intelligent people over the years and is of course nothing new but given the message behind this ‘FUCK BREXIT PRO IMMIGRATION’ album I felt a little history and context was needed."

Brothers & Sisters will follow Mason's 2019 album About The Light, and is, in his own words, "a massive 'Fuck you' to Brexit."

He adds, "And a giant 'Fuck you' to anyone that is terrified of immigration because there is nothing that immigration has brought to this country that isn’t to be applauded. Can you imagine what this place would be like without that [immigration]? I mean what would it be like? Cornish pasties and morris dancing?"

1. Tracklist:
2. Mars Man
3. I’m On My Way
4. No More
5. All Over Again
6. The People Say
7. Let It Go
8. Pieces Of Me
9. Travelling Hard
10. Brixton Fish Fry
11. Upon My Soul
12. Brothers & Sisters