Michael Kiwanuka Details Studio Work for FUDGE

Michael Kiwanuka has taken on the production management himself rather than working with Danger Mouse and Inflo. This development represents the very first time that Kiwanuka has personally assumed control of the production management since the release of his first album, Home Again. To see the studio recordings through to completion, Kiwanuka worked together with producer Dom Monks and strings arranger Rosie Danvers.

The album titled FUDGE was written almost simultaneously alongside Kiwanuka's fourth album, Small Changes, which was released in 2024. During this period, the song Summer Clothes originally came about as one of the candidate tracks for the Small Changes album. For the working sessions, Kiwanuka used a single-room studio located within close distance of his home in Southampton. Kiwanuka was born in the Muswell Hill area of North London.

Kiwanuka spent the Mercury money that he won on a console, filling the space with studio equipment. Multi-instrumentalist Joe Connell, who plays in Kiwanuka's live band, lived nearby in the area. Together, the pair gave the studio that they established the name Dreamers. In addition, the visual artwork on the album cover was prepared by illustrator and animator Stevie Gee, who is an old friend of Kiwanuka.