“The inspiration behind the album was the melting pot of our youthful spirits,” The Soil tells Apple Music. “The angst experienced in our young relationships; our relationship with God; our perspective on what a harmonious world should look and feel like; and all the day-to-day occurrences that we saw in Soweto, the township we all grew up in.” In 2011, the kasi a cappella soul group’s self-titled debut album rekindled the spirit of Mzansi the way the FIFA World Cup had done the previous year. They serenaded South Africans young and old with music rooted in childlike innocence and driven by an infectious spirit of optimism. They sang about love (“Sunday”, “Baninzi”, “Iinkomo”), repurposed childhood taunts (“Bomba”) and had the country do a group hug with “Joy”, a song in which they made the heartfelt declaration: “I know I don’t know who you are, but I know we are family.” As the album’s opener, a poem by Portia Monama, states, “We are reaping what the tapping of the feet have sown,” The Soil take their sound from vintage South African genres, chief among them isicathamiya, the Zulu a cappella genre made famous worldwide by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. But The Soil embellished the nostalgia with genres from their era: Hip-hop offered the beatbox and cadences, while the melodies were borrowed from, among other genres, soul music.