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Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate CD (2016) [Soul]
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Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Album: Love & Hate
Bitrate: 236kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Polydor
Genre: Soul
Size: 98.82 megs
PlayTime: 0h 55min 04sec total
Rip Date: 2016-07-29
Store Date: 2016-07-15
Track List
01. Cold Little Heart 10:10
02. Black Man In A White World 4:19
03. Falling 4:16
04. Place I Belong 4:47
05. Love And Hate 7:07
06. One More Night 3:53
07. I'll Never Love 2:46
08. Rule The World 5:42
09. Father's Child 7:05
10. The Final Frame 4:59
Release Notes
Michael Kiwanuka could easily be your common-or-garden young soul man, all
furrowed of brow, bittersweet of piano chord and gravelly of croon. Pots of gold
await that kind of approach, thanks to a record-buying public still heavily
invested in the soul revival. Mercury-nominated for Home Again, his graciously
turned soul-folk debut of 2012, Kiwanuka has been awol for four years, crafting
his second album alongside producers such as Home Agains Paul Butler, Londoner
Inflo and celeb import Danger Mouse, watching poseurs such as James Bay get
famous
Theres a good amount of bittersweet furrow n croon on the 29-year-olds
second album, Love & Hatecorrect (the title presumably taken from Leonard
Cohens Songs of Love and Hate): 10 tracks in which relationships fail to work
out in storybook fashion; Kiwanuka contemplates whether or not he is his
fathers child; and current events in the big, bad world press in
antagonistically
A key track, Black Man in a White World, for instance, starts out as just
handclaps and vocals, rootsy to the point of cliche. But give it a minute and
the swelling song spells out the saudade of racism in a way that even those
unwittingly basking in white privilege can understand: Im in love but Im
still sad/ Ive found peace but Im not glad, Kiwanuka sings. Granted, its not
quite the goosebump-inducing, Marvin Gaye epic. But the ecstatic music swirling
around Kiwanuka gives his weary message broad wings
The looser-limbed One More Night, by contrast, has something of the roll of the
Black Keys (Danger Mouse clients) to it, stitched together with crisp details
where the combination of parping organ and bright horns could be so much more
textbook
You do feel a stronger shiver when Kiwanukas thoughts turn inwards. The album
opens on Cold Little Heart, a five-minute meditation on his own organs
failings, prefaced by a slightly unconventional, five-minute overture in which
orchestral soul trades off with Pink Floyd guitar. All told, its a touch too
grandiose, but littered with gems of hard-won self-knowledge. Maybe this time I
can be strong, Kiwanuka sings, But since you know who I am / Im probably
wrong
The same unflattering self-portrait resurfaces on songs such as the exceptional
Falling. Kiwanukas delivery is a combination of delicacy and exhaustion
telling of an on-off relationship drained of all hope. Im a man that belongs
alone, Kiwanuka tells us. His eloquent orchestra is cut off at least a minute
too soon. Four songs along, on Ill Never Love, Kiwanuka is still sounding
bereft, while his music is generous, a country-soul track full of succour
The Final Frame ends things with Kiwanuka singing tenderly about the end of a
relationship, one framed by the times Im living through. A squally electric
guitar solo lets you know Love & Hate isnt just another slice of vintage soul
but something a little more intriguing than that
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