Jake Blount "The New Faith" Christmas 2025 and multi-instrumentalist Sloan Struble creates

and multi-instrumentalist Sloan Struble creates catchy

Silhouetted guitar leads help convey moody dampness

Pre-Mercury demos licensed from Red Star music

'Don't Turn Around'

Matt Lukin (Mudhoney/Melvins)

Jake Blount "The New Faith" Christmas 2025 and multi-instrumentalist Sloan Struble createsThe New Faith tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared