Great singles, but where is the promised ‘1960’ album?

I listen to another good, if not imperious single from the lady everyone has nothing but love for…Eva Alordiah, and I wonder why Nigeria still don’t have that and more in a power album.

Everyone has nothing but love for Eva. She’s small and extremely cute, gently strides the fine line between flat right tomboyism and raw sex appeal. She’s also a role model, with her involvement in modelling, her outrageously impressive makeup game, the skill acquisition classes to empower younger folks (for a good fee), the deep, insightful, and layered blog posts, and most recently, her engagement.

What right thinking young girl, wouldn’t want to be Eva Alordiah right now? Everyone, except the musicians.

Eva’s talent in music making is worthy of the greatest heights. She possesses lyrical skills that entertain in a deeply sensual, yet thoughtful manner, leaving listeners contented, yet longing for more. Since her return to music after the ‘G.I.GO EP’, she has made great strides with her second body of work, ‘Eva’(THE EP), and singles ‘Lights out’, ‘Deaf’, ‘Deaf and dumb’, ‘War coming’, and the recent ‘Kanayo’. Everyone is pumped up and ready for the release of the album, which she christened .

But that album did not come. “1960” is still far, yet so near, and everyone keeps losing interest in the work.

This loss of interest is a function of failed release dates and promises not delivered on. And this all the fault of Eva and her representatives.

“1960” album was first announced to be released over a year ago. The rapper put out word in late 2014, that the LP was at completion, and would hit the streets on January 14, 2015. Fast forward one year later, and we are still waiting.

Up next came claims that the project would be dropped on a symbolical date. October 1, Nigeria’s hallowed Independence Day was chosen, and everyone became certain that Eva, with her flair for the artistic, was set to marry an album name after our year of independence, to its true month of occurrence.

On Wednesday, September 30, Eva still assured fans the album will drop in an Instagram post captioned ‘1Day to go’, but alas October 1 came and there was no album.

Since that day, we have had to settle for the word ‘soon’. 1960 is dropping soon. Jesus is coming soon.

What baffles everyone in all of these failed dates is that nobody from her team, have done the honorable thing, by putting out a statement, acknowledging the failed release dates. Not one statement, word or comment as October became November, and November rolled into the festive December, and the New Year settled in. One year later, “1960” is still coming ‘soon’.

Credit to the team should be given, as they have continued to maintain interest by release of singles, and the promotion of the earlier ones, but the album, which would crown all of these efforts have failed to materialize.

Where is the album? Where is Eva Alordiah’s crowning debut LP?