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Miles bonny lumberjack soul zip11/7/2022 ![]() ![]() Progressive listeners who want to delve deeper into these topics are best spending time with the album Nina Simone in Concert, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, the films of Spike Lee and Ava DuVernay, and the writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis, to name just a few starting points.- Joel Francis While Younge should be applauded for his ambition and pushing these issues into the center of the table, the result is too muddled for the listener to leave with any great insights or next steps. ![]() Although Younge’s songs sound terrific, he struggles to contain the complex themes within a verse/chorus structure. The multi-voice spoken interludes sound like a class reading from a syllabus. While Younge has no problem reaching the sonic grandeur of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Donny Hathaway’s greatest social commentary, he frequently falls short as a lyricist. Part of a greater project, including a podcast and short film, The American Negro album buckles under its own weight and shortcomings. ![]() #Miles bonny lumberjack soul zip series#Check out this week’s list of new vinyl arrivals:Ģ1 Savage & Metro Boomin- Savage Mode II (Colored Vinyl, Red)Īs a Black man, co-author of the Jazz is Dead series and producer renown for draping albums in lush strings, Blaxploitation funk and other touches of yesteryear, Adrian Younge seems uniquely positioned to offer great insight and aesthetics to this look at how structural racism shapes America’s modern identity. It’s Faith No More New Vinyl Thursday at The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven. ![]()
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