Product Description
Kiwanuka is the follow-up to Michaels number 1 album, Love and Hate, released back in July 2016 that resonated broadly both critically and in the publics affections, netting the British musician his second Mercury Prize nomination and his second and third Brit nominations too. Recorded in New York, LA and London, Michael returned to the studio with Danger Mouse and Inflo, the same production team that combined so magnificently on Love and Hate, Kiwanuka finds a new assuredness in Michael's writing, and takes the basic sonic blueprint of that last record to a dizzying new realm.
Michael explains: "The last album came from an introspective place and felt like therapy, I guess. This one is more about feeling comfortable in who I am and asking what I want to say. Like, how could I be bold and challenge myself and the listener? It is about self-acceptance in a more triumphant rather than melancholy way. It's an album that explores what it means to be a human being today .When I first signed a record deal, people would ask me, "So what are you going to be called?". And I never thought of that; calling myself Johnny Thunders or whatever, like singers from the past. So, on this album it's kind of a defiant thing; I'm engaging with who I am and I'm not going to have an alter ego, or become Sasha Fierce or Ziggy Stardust, even though everyone's telling me I need to be this, that or the other. I can just be Michael Kiwanuka."
TRACKLIST
- You Ain't The Problem
- Rolling
- I've Been Dazed
- Intro Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love)
- Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love)
- Another Human Being (Interlude)
- Living In Denial
- Hero
- Hard To Say Goodbye
- Final Days
- Interlude (Loving The People)
- Solid Ground
- Light
