New album 'We Are Sent Here By History' by Shabaka & The Ancestors is conceptualised as a sonic poem that would tell the story of the end of the world as we currently perceive it. “You behold the things that have been masking the truth; the idea of civilisation and the idea of enlightenment” - as band's leader Shabaka Hutchings tells in the Quietus interview. The first step “has to be linked to the idea of deconstructing masculinity. Deconstructing what it means to be a man masked”, and then we need to “explore the possibilities of appraising a collective reality as opposed to saying we need to drift towards one dominant one”.

"People think that history is finite, but it is something that needs to be explored constantly; it needs to be challenged and sometimes set alight, so we don’t continue to make the same mistakes... For there to be a change, there needs to be the end of what we want changed" - the great saxophone player Shabaka Hutchings told the Guardian ahead of the new album by Shabaka and His Ancestors 'We Are Sent Here by History (out March 13). But, he sees himself as an optimist - “I feel really positive about the future... Because there is always a fraught tension before things change – things really do have to get worse before they get better”.