On Home Again, the young Kiwanuka proves that youth and wisdom are not mutually exclusive and his insights and talents, albeit still a bit raw, suggest great things to come. Anglo-Ugandan singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka's debut album was released in the United Kingdom back in March. But the rest of the mostly acoustic album also incorporates all kinds of musical flourishes from traditional call-and-responses (like on the swinging “Bones”) to tension-ridden violins (“Rest”) to almost Jethro Tull-inspired flutes (“Tell Me A Tale” and “”I’ll Get Along”). Of the few songs that had been previously released on other EPs, “I’m Getting Ready” and “Home Again” were immediately captivating in their gentle, lullaby-like rocking. He seems to channel the likes of Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, infusing his tunes with that same vocal timbre that both yearns and soothes. Home Again became available digitally in the United States in May and now, physical copies of the folksy, bluesy, soulful record have finally hit American streets.Īt just 24 years old, Kiwanuka has already found the voice of an old soul. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.Anglo-Ugandan singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka’s debut album was released in the United Kingdom back in March. When Kiwanuka sings, “The young and dumb will always need/One of their own to lead,” he doesn’t volunteer. do you ever think about how heat lightning is the clouds having a conversation. Absent, though, is any hint of reveling: a tendency that often leads to soul rot. TikTok video from sienna (siennaisarock): ''. Offering no blandishments, no expressions of we’ll-get-through-this, Kiwanuka is a nerve-wracked, sustained act of whistling in the dark. Always, though, doubt chews away at him: “And if I had a dream/Love would be sunshine for me.” A studio-created ripple sound effect creates a sense of immensity. But the album offers compensatory pleasures, like “Hard to Say Goodbye,” in which Kiwanuka pledges fealty through and space time to a vague someone he has dared to love-an example of the album’s faint queer undertones. They love these ideas so much that its follow-up “Interlude (Loving the People)” give them to you again, all three instrumental minutes of them.
Perhaps to keep things from skewing too “retro,” Danger Mouse and Inflo overdo the modernizing touches: the clinkety-clanks and distorted samples that sandwich “Final Days” distract from a chiming lament whose refrain marks Kiwanuka’s peak as a vocalist. “Living in Denial,” change tempos and chords after a couple of exploratory minutes Kiwanuka treats songs like ecosystems that stretch and flower after sunlight and soil tilling. Find release reviews and credits for Home Again Deluxe Edition - Michael Kiwanuka on AllMusic - 2012 - An age ago, major labels signed artists knowing. 2 The album garnered a positive reception from critics. 1 It was produced by Paul Butler of the UK indie rock band The Bees in The Steam Rooms, a basement studio in his house in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. “Piano Joint (This Kind of Love)” presents itself as a prayer in an empty room. Home Again is the debut studio album by London-based singer-songwriterMichael Kiwanuka, which was released on March 12, 2012. The synth-anchored “Solid Ground” almost chokes on its anguish until the strings offer solace. Recorded in New York, LA and London, Michael. Its best songs are as direct as Kiwanuka’s gaze. 'KIWANUKA' is the follow-up to Michael's number 1 album, 'Love & Hate', released back in July 2016, that resonated broadly both critically and in the public's affections, netting the British musician his second Mercury Prize nomination and his second and third BRIT nominations too. Kiwanuka mirrors Markeidric Walker’s cover art: grand, regal in its confidence, faintly androgynous. Better still is his voice, which mixes Solomon Burke’s slow-burn urgency with John Hiatt’s gulp. His take on soul proceeds from the fuzzed-out serrated explorations of the Temptations’ psychedelic era and Terence Trent D’Arby at his most communal.
In the three years since Love & Hate, Kiwanuka’s popularity has only grown- the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies picked up that album’s “Cold Little Heart” as its theme song.
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