Michael Kiwanuka’s much-anticipated Home Again may be living in the past, but unlike most of the other nu-soul chart botherers it feels genuinely hip.
Whether it was intended that way or not, Michael Kiwanuka's debut ticks a lot of the boxes required for pop success in 2012.
Michael Kiwanuka's Home Again is a remarkably assured and sophisticated album.
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.
While Home Again isn't packed with 21-style mega heartbreak anthems, it's still a fine record. The first thing that grabs your attention is the production, which has been handled by Paul Butler of The Bees.
For the most part, it still holds together as a serene meditation that vacillates with a refined grace and beauty.
Unlike the work of Kiwanuka's forebears – Bill Withers, Terry Callier et al – you don't come away from Home Again changed by its insights. Instead, you have just filled the air with some nice sounds.
Sensitively produced by The Bees' Paul Butler, it's a pleasant enough handful of easy-going songs, in which the focus on warmth has left them lacking bite.
Across the ten tracks it dawdles a tad, the lush ache of Kiwanuka’s eiderdown voice just about pulling us out of a snooze-dive.
Despite difficulties, Home Again is a promising debut by an artist who will no doubt deliver big if developed properly.
Tell Me A Tale 9.9💚
I'm Get Ready 9.5💚
I'll Get Along 8.6💚
Rest 7.2💚
Home Again 8.4💚
Bones 7.0💚
Always Waiting 7.6💚
I Won't Lie 6.7💚
Any Day Will Do Fine 6.3💚
Worry Walks Beside Me 5.8💛
Nota Final:77💚💚💚💚(Bom)
Simples,Retrô e Modesto 😌
What Michael Kiwanuka and Paul Butler managed to arrange is an imaginary meeting with Van Morrison and with Bill Withers, around an old, wooden table with a bottle of wine upon it and the sound of vintage soul sweetening the air.
Isso é tão lindo e tocante.
Não é original e inovador,mas sua emoção e honestidade é apaixonante.
Kiwanuka é um dos artistas mais doce e adoráveis que pude conhecer, musicalmente.
Sua voz rouca e vulnerável, os arranjos calmos e singelos e de bom gosto, narrativas mais diretas e tocantes, canções simpáticas e profundas, é a receita perfeita para aquecer meu coração.
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This is one of my mother's favorite albums. She always used to listen to this in the evening/night with a glass of red wine and a cigarette in her living room that, at the same time, was her atelier (artist studio).
Tell Me A Tale: 80 ★
I'm Getting Ready: 80 ★
I'll Get Along: 80 ★
Rest: 80 ★
Home Again: 90 ★
Bones: 80
Always Waiting: 80 ★
I Won't Lie: 80
Any Day Will Do Fine: 70
Worry Walks Beside Me: 80
Average: 80 / 100
What Michael Kiwanuka and Paul Butler managed to arrange is an imaginary meeting with Van Morrison and with Bill Withers, around an old, wooden table with a bottle of wine upon it and the sound of vintage soul sweetening the air.
1 | Tell Me a Tale 4:12 | 83 |
2 | I'm Getting Ready 2:24 | 79 |
3 | I'll Get Along 3:28 | 80 |
4 | Rest 3:52 | 79 |
5 | Home Again 3:32 | 90 |
6 | Bones 3:48 | 86 |
7 | Always Waiting 4:31 | 83 |
8 | I Won't Lie 4:03 | 86 |
9 | Any Day Will Do Fine 3:40 | 79 |
10 | Worry Walks Beside Me 4:57 | 85 |
#26 | / | American Songwriter |
#46 | / | Complex |