Hey Fambul.. This is our second LP, and comes after much change and development.

We asked our friends what they think, when asked to describe us, and they said, “Cool Out Sun creates music bridging the traditions of classic Hip Hop with the traditions of Afrobeat, Afro soul & roots music blending West African language and culture with modern sonics that jump out the speakers. Beats are built on the MPC & refined with all live instrumentation & vocals recorded in their lofi indie label, House of Beige studio in the middle of nowhere.

The group’s explosive live show has them performing consistently, and their music has been getting a lot of Australian airplay as well as spins across the US, EU and the UK radio. Cool Out Sun songs go deep into social subjects and storytelling with historical and cultural messaging hidden in catchy hooks and heavy grooves.”
This collection of songs continues this theme while leaning into the more vibrant side of what we, Cool Out Sun cooked up in the studio in the creation of this album, ‘A LION IS A LION.

We give thanks to our many ancestors who guide us. Our beautiful families who understand our need to make music, and continue supporting our journey and the time we spend away to record, do live shows and dream. We love you deeply.

Lamine Sonko, Nui Moon, Neda Rahmani, Kwame Tosuma, Immy Owusu, Bilalli, Vida Sunshyne, and Sampa The Great…. Deepest gratitude, respect and love to you all for being involved in the recordings, and gracing the stage with us. It is an honour spending precious time, sharing rhythms, learning about life, music, food, travel etc etc. So blessed to have you all in our lives, and making music together. Family!

Thanks to our close friends who support us and look happy when they see us. Thanks to new friends and people we don’t know who come to shows and get down with our music.. Thanks to everyone who played or sang on the record, or helped support the record. We are talking H.O.B crew, Northside Records crew, Xelon crew, Midnight Snack, Radio programmers and DJ’s, venues, festivals bookers, Sam Dutch, Dan The Dutch, Kaba, Nic McRobbie, Seven Six, Andrei Eremin, Maxwell Dowling and Xav Tin For Your Incredible Artwork.

We give thanks to our local community of creatives who support us and one another locally and internationally from the beautiful land and waters of Bunurong country of the South-Eastern Kulin Nation, with deep respect for the sacred lands and waterways of the ancestors, their places, people, traditional cultural practices, and stories. We feel blessed.

We tell our children – never make yourself less, or something else for others. Be respectful, but be what you are and who you are – A Lion is a Lion – unapologetically cool.