Cocoa Sugar

Cocoa Sugar is the third studio album by Scottish indie group Young Fathers. It was released on Ninja Tune on 9 March 2018. It won the Scottish Album of the Year Award for 2018. It peaked at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart.

Artwork
The album art, designed by Tom Hingston and photographed by Julia Noni, features band member Alloysious Massaquoi and is a direct homage to the Waldemar Świerzy's Polish poster for the 1969 drama film Midnight Cowboy.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 87, based on 21 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Clayton Purdom of The A.V. Club described the album as "a worthy progression, a tight stretch of otherworldly melodies, ramshackle percussion, and buzzing clouds of woozy ambient sound."

Personnel

 * David Cousin – additional vocals (track 12)
 * Timothy London – co-producer
 * Graham "G" Hastings – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6–12)
 * Laurie Ross – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6–12)
 * Ben Baptie – mixing (track 5)
 * Vlado Meller – mastering
 * Hingston Studio – design and art direction
 * Julia Noni – photography