Battle Scars

“Will these lyrics just fall on deaf ears? I’ve been waiting to spit this for years”, Wrighty muses over a spine-tingling orchestral arrangement on “Battle Scars”, the cinematic opener on his long-awaited debut album of the same name. Following a shock cancer diagnosis last year and the news that surgeons would be operating on his throat, the South London native stirred himself into a self-described “frenzy” of recording and releasing new music on a weekly basis. Two successful operations later, Wrighty’s scars serve both as a permanent reminder of his struggle and as a source of musical inspiration. Maintaining his prolific work rate, he carefully assembled a ten-track collection of “deep cuts”, spanning weighty issues including war and conflict, grievance, and institutional racism.