Reviews / Album

International pioneers.

The tunes lack the versatility of her earlier releases, giving the album a ‘this song sounds kinda like the last one’ feel.

This is a record of often intricate interlaced layers. Sometimes you can see where they overlap, but often it’s just a liquid whole – listen as Brother Moon Sister Sun just ebbs away.

Though the set does run out of steam a little in its second half, possibly off the back of his constant changing of focus, tracks like Human Mic and It Only Gets Better remind us why we fell in love with Kweli in the first place.