The first taste of Joseph’s cinematic debut album, Forever Ends Someday, is out now.
There’s a very specific kind of calm that shows up when everything is objectively not calm at all. Wesley Joseph seems interested in that feeling. On “Peace Of Mind,” he leans all the way into it, pairing his stress free demeanor with the glorious turmoil of Danny Brown.
The London-based singer, producer, and director dropped “Peace Of Mind”, a cutting new single featuring Danny Brown, alongside a self-directed, strobe-lit video that centres on a slow-motion brawl. In the song, Joseph’s voice hovers over a mildly threatening bass, light, precise, and unbothered, while Danny Brown bursts in like someone just kicked your living room door open. “Peace Of Mind’ is about finding clarity within chaos, a juxtaposition between solace and unrest. It’s a self-prescribed pick-me-up and was written from an empowered but unsettled place,” Joseph says, “Sometimes you feel the fire in your stomach the most when things aren’t sweet.” We’re not totally sure what that fire is (sounds like anxious heartburn), but the song bangs, so we’ll allow the vague descriptor.
Working with Danny Brown is one of those childhood dreams most people don’t have the honor to actually come true. “Growing up, he was always one of my hero artists,” he says. “Someone who’s an outsider and knows no rules when it comes to pushing sound forward and being fearless with it.”
The song is the first taste of his debut album Forever Ends Someday, which promises 13 tracks, and to be a cinematic, genre-blurring project built across London, Walsall, LA, and the Swiss mountains. Despite the “debut” tag, Joseph is very much not new here. Following almost three years after his 2023 EP Glow, hundreds of millions of streams, and a sold-out headline tour across the US, calling this a starting point is a bit of a stretch. But he’s been around, and will be for a while – even if “forever,” as he reminds us, doesn’t actually last.
