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2018, 2×12″ LP, Domino.
There’s no denying Domino know how to knock ’em down hard. Having already delivered long players from Cat Power, Bob Moses and Villagers just this year alone, they are now turning to Devonte Hynes who is no stranger to the label either. Negro Swan provides the London artist with his fourth studio album which in large draws from the lost souls of ’90s pop. It’s hard not to hear Michael Jackson, Phil Collins and R&B four pieces all at once in tracks like “Saint”, and even “Charcoal Baby”, while there’s even suggestion of Will Powers’ spoken charm in the words to “Family”. More Contemporary touches of genre are there in the emotional, beat pop of tracks like “Chewing Gum” and “Nappy Wonder” without forgetting the tropes of neo soul in “Holy Will”. A grand album wrapped up in the angel wings of Blood Orange’s queer poetic.
