Album

The Sword & The Soaring

Navy Blue

2025 · Hip Hop

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The Sword & The Soaring by Navy Blue

The Sword & The Soaring is a Hip-Hop album by Navy Blue, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.

About

Since Sage Elsesser’s Def Jam departure following 2023’s introspective <i>Ways of Knowing</i>, his Navy Blue albums have only gotten more autobiographical. First came <i>Memoirs in Armour</i>, a gripping look inside the mind of one of rap’s most ruminative over instrumentals by some of the underground’s finest. This continues on <i>The Sword & The Soaring</i>, a series of songs that addresses the past and present with a directness rarely encountered in this or any genre. A sense of loss looms over the somber Child Actor beat for “Sunlight of the Spirit,” while a countervailing brightness surfaces later on the self-produced “Sharing Life.” Religious imagery and professions of faith help to finely frame these profoundly personal recordings, as he finds kinship with Earl Sweatshirt on “24 Gospel” and professes declarations of salvation on “Guardadas.” Wrath and love tussle throughout this musical missive on grief and trauma, yet by the end of fantasy-indebted “The Phoenix” it appears his healing light has won out over the suffocating darkness.

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Tracklist

  1. 1The Bloodletter2:32
  2. 2Orchards2:38
  3. 3God’s Kingdom2:39
  4. 4Sunlight of the Spirit2:50
  5. 5Guardadas3:13
  6. 6My Heartbeat3:06
  7. 7Tale of Truth2:32
  8. 8Fight On2:03
  9. 9Kindred Spirit2:09
  10. 10If Only…3:41
  11. 11Illusions2:18
  12. 1224 Gospel2:55
  13. 13Here & Now1:58
  14. 14Soul Investments2:32
  15. 15Sharing Life3:01
  16. 16The Phoenix3:26

Sound DNA

  • Hip-Hop
  • Alternative Hip-Hop
  • warm
  • meditative
  • soulful

Credits

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