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michael kiwanuka - home again - polydor - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Tell Me A Tale
2. I'm Getting Ready
3. I'll Get Along
4. Rest
5. Home Again
6. Bones
7. Always Waiting
8. I Won't Lie
9. Any Day Will Do Fine
10. Worry Walks Beside Me

Much anticipated debut album from this new UK soul artist. Tip!

On this debut album, Michael Kiwanuka certainly proves he’s more than just another new-soul crooner; the softly rolling, thoughtful likes of ‘I’m Getting Ready’ owe more to the sexy, intense, jazzy folk-soul of Tim Buckley or Terry Callier than any attempt to be a modern-day Marvin Gaye. Sometimes, as on ‘Rest’ or ‘I Won’t Lie’, with its impressively reverberating cymbals, Kiwanuka sounds more like a man crafting a style, but at other moments, as on the title track and the brush-drummed, doo-wop romance of ‘Bones’, feeling flows through