Tony Njoku has released his new EP A World of Bodies on Fire via PRAH Recordings, out now.
The four-track instrumental collection follows his 2025 album All Our Knives Are Always Sharp, which featured Ghostpoet, GAIKA and Space Afrika across its runtime. Where that record grappled with spiritual survival and cultural resistance through collaboration, A World of Bodies on Fire turns inward. It was built in the aftermath of burnout and disappointment, Njoku working alone through his synths and piano to construct a set of propulsive, cinematic pieces that move between rage and reflection, euphoria and stillness.
“After burnout and disappointments I needed to scream, cry, laugh and move,” Njoku has said of the sessions. “I needed to get a lot off my chest, and thought the best way to do that was through my synths and piano. This project is a collection of raging exhalations, quiet revelations, subtle smirks of humility, meandering through emotional temperatures, laments and meditations.”
The EP’s title condenses multiple states of intensity into a single image: the horror of collective catastrophe, an overactive nervous system pushed into fight or flight, and the passions and desires of everyday life. “We’re all on fire in some way,” Njoku has said.
The tracklist spans the title track, ‘Streams and Storms’, ‘The Quiet Chaos of Playing It Safe’ and ‘Etude No. 1’. Njoku supported Puma Blue across a European run in May and is now approaching a significant summer of London appearances. On 19th June he opens for Orlando Weeks at the songwriter’s only solo performance of 2026, a Meltdown Festival show curated by Harry Styles at the Southbank Centre. The broader Meltdown programme also features Jon Hopkins, Nilüfer Yanya, Kamasi Washington and Yussef Dayes.
