An expertly varied, warmly compelling five-tracker, personably dazed but with dance-floor ambitions, featuring collaborators including South London rapper Jawnino, Honduran-born powerhouse Isabella Lovestory, unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes, and NYC mainstay Physical Therapy. Try the down-tempo Besos Robados; a kind of reggaeton Lovers.
Lovely stuff.
“I’ve always loved those Motown duets with Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and wanted to create a modern version of that… playing with the way those duets have this quite clear notion of romance, love and relationships…We’re subverting that a little to explore normativity in relationships. Musically, we’ve tried to put all of the beauty, excitement, and tension of modern day love into this song.”
His spectacularly seminal 2003 LP, plus fourteen hard-to-find or previously unreleased cuts, including seven instrumentals, and the celebrated freestyle Street Fighter.
On white, yellow and black vinyl, in a wide-spine, birthday-boy sleeve.
‘A re-imagining.’
An expanded version of the album, adding two unreleased tracks — a cover of Richie Havens’ Handsome Johnny and a previously unheard Scott-Heron song, King Henry IV — as well as a selection of other recordings from the original sessions only previously available on a rare, deluxe LP edition.