Album: powfu – surrounded by hounds and serpents
The title of Powfu’s debut full-length album reads like a cry for help coming from inside pop music’s most exclusive VIP room. That’s where the British Columbia artist (né Isaiah Faber) found himself in 2020 after crafting the definitive slack-rap jam of the pandemic, “death bed (coffee for your head)”, a bleary-eyed anthem that catapulted him into the billion-stream club. That sudden success threatened to thrust the bedroom beatmaker out of his natural environment and into a place where he was, as his record puts it, surrounded by hounds and serpents. “When you start getting more famous, a lot more snakes start popping up—you realise there’s a lot of people that want to be friends just because you have money,” Powfu tells Apple Music.