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Review Summary: Oh my god girl… this place is smelly, the toilet is dirty. Are you sure your American accent is not fake? Love Supreme is Nneka’s seventh album. It is a warm amalgamation of styles and sounds as diverse as reggae, trip hop, soul, pop, drum and bass, hip hop and whatever else she feels like throwing your way. This initially unlikely mix is less perplexing than it would seem at first sight: Nneka has both Nigerian and German roots. If Portishead’s Third was a huge freezer warehouse (which it is), Love Supreme would be the generator room next door, swelteringly hot but equally dark and weird. Some of these thirteen cuts do indeed remind me of Portishead’s 2008 album, not only sonically but also because of Nneka’s occasionally Beth Gibbons-y voice. At other times she sounds almost like Britney Spears or even Snow-white heard through the ears of a hamster, yet it all works. To top it all off, there are swirling string arrangements, compressed beats, a swinging horn section, dubby basslines, vocal samples, saxophones, acoustic guitars, and Christian themed lyrics. This quirky, eclectic and successful interpretation of everything under the sun might have led to comparisons with Björk that I’ve come across online. Another common comparison would be Lauryn Hill, which surely isn’t misplaced either. Nneka however has outgrown all of these comparisons for some time now, building a strange little sonic world all of her own. It’s there to explore for those willing to dip their toes into something new altogether.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Too cool to go without review!!
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“she sounds almost like Britney Spears or even Snow-white heard through the ears of a hamster”
WTF is with this description. Great review otherwise lol pos. Oh, and the first two tracks are great so thanks for reviewing this.
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Ahahha! But do you get which bit I meant? With the Moby - Feeling So Real type vox?
Wanted to get some attention for this, it's a nice one.
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Yeah, I got that. Sometimes it sounded hamsterish I guess, but I can guarantee I didn’t feel like a hamster listening to it 😂
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nice writeup triffer gonna jam this
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Nice, Tri!
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Hahaha that's a pity pizza! Who knows, maybe future listening sessions will awaken your inner rodent...
Hope you enjoy occy and hi Diva!
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Somehow I doubt it 😮💨
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Sweet little review trif, that summary is a doozy lmao
Not sure if I'll end up checking this (not too huge on most of the things u compared it to) but the album art is cool and I gotta respect anyone with the stones to name their album "Love Supreme" so who knows
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the past is aliiiiveeerughtghuhhgrgh
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A love supreme
A love supreme
A loove supreme
A loove supreme
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lovely lil rev Triffy!
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I'm gonna say it simple. You should write more.
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You are cuties! Now go listen to this weird little record!
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I would've read this anyway because Trif, duh!
...but this is indeed a rather attention grabbing review
I also witnessed mention of Portishead / Third / Gibbons and some other things, yet I'm struggling to remember those things now because Portishead etc. >
should probably check!
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I would be surprised if you'd enjoy this to be honest, but who knows! There is some serious Björkage (God's Love) here, and the aforementioned Third-ness (Sea, Space), so that could work.
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might have to listen if portishead
anyone try microbunny ?
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Similar artists: 'Portishead, Hooverphonic, Thievery Corporation, Bowery Electric, Povarovo'
I will be now, thanks park!
(no idea who Povarovo are mind)
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i tried to choose some fitting ones
microbunny is basically trip-hop with some dark jazz influence.. not too unlike perdition city ig
povarovo is a dark jazz i found a couple years ago
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ooh, that combo might work for me!
should probably add that to my rather unwieldy forever-growing 'list' too (I don't actually have a physical list, which is unfathomably stupid of me, lol)
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