Tommy WÁ - Hope Our Paths Cross [EP]
TOMMY WÁ ANNOUNCES NEW EP DETAILS + SHARES NEW TRACK
HOPE OUR PATHS CROSS EP RELEASED 21ST AUGUST 2026
Tommy WÁ is pleased to announce details of his new EP, Hope Our Paths Cross via Dirty Hit, due for release this Summer.
The EP is released on 21st August, and features Tommy’s returning single earlier this year, Alleluya (Another World) and the recently released, There Goes My Youth. The five song EP launches today with a new track, the evocative slowburn of Will You Wait?
Having spent his formative years, post studies, balancing a fledgling career as a politically minded documentary photographer with his interest and dedication to songwriting, it was a steady diet of African folk music that informs how Tommy WÁ approaches his music. With his mind expanded by what he heard from the west via the radio, he sought out a thriving Soundcloud ‘scene’ from West Africa that led to more unique, leftfield discoveries.
Hope Our Paths Cross will be Tommy’s third EP to date, and his second via Dirty Hit.
Tommy WÁ on the new EP: “Hope Our Paths Cross is an inevitable departure from the communal comfort that Roadman and Folks and Somewhere Only We Go were built around. Every gathering eventually comes to an end, and as the Yoruba saying goes, ‘Twenty children cannot play together for twenty years.’ At some point, we all leave the playground.
These songs were written from that crossroads. They ask what happens when adulthood quietly replaces possibility with responsibility, and whether the people we’re meant to align with can still recognise us as we become who we’re supposed to be.
Hence, Will You Wait? is anchored in intimate details of the journey, asking whether love can sustain or find us while we’re still becoming the people we’re meant to be.”
Pre-order the new EP HERE
Listen to There Goes My Youth HERE
Listen to Alleluya (Another World) HERE
What you hear in Tommy’s new music couldn’t necessarily come from anywhere else, there’s a purity and soul-bearing to his songwriting that owes much to the likes of Justin Vernon, Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka. A fascinated, wide-eyed approach to the beauty of music and its sonics. It’s timeless and fresh, gospel-smoked stuff.
Fuelled by an ‘anxious anxiety’ to push himself to his limits each time he picks up a guitar, Tommy writes his songs mostly inspired by both his faith and his travels, across Africa, Europe and further afield. Seeing the world, seeing different perspectives and then weaving them into song. This is as much a portrayal of modern Ghana as it is of the man behind it. It speaks to, and encourages, hope. Hope springs eternal. And as a taster to what comes next for Tommy WÁ, it’s a scintillating, bold step forward.