Length 54:49 Release date 15 July 2016 | Artist Michael Kiwanuka | |
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Released 15 July 2016 (2016-07-15) Producer Danger Mouse, Inflo, Paul Butler Label Insomniac/Interscope Records Genres Soul music, Acoustic music Nominations Brit Award for MasterCard British Album of the Year, BBC Music Award for Album of the Year Similar Home Again, Malibu, Teens of Denial, Skeleton Tree, The Dreaming Room | ||
Love & Hate is the second studio album by London-based singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. The album was released on 15 July 2016 by Polydor Records (UK) and Interscope Records (US).
Contents
Background
The album is the follow-up record to Kiwanuka's 2012 Mercury Prize-nominated album Home Again. The album was produced by Danger Mouse, Inflo, and Paul Butler. Love & Hate also released three singles. The first single, "Black Man in a White World" was released on 28 March 2016, and was accompanied by a video directed by Hiro Murai. The second single, "Love & Hate", was released on 7 April 2016.
Critical reception
Upon its release, Love & Hate received widespread critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 86, based on 23 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The Telegraph said "This is an album that sounds like a world of music in itself", while The Guardian called the album "the work of an artist coming into his own". Writing for Exclaim!, Ryan B. Patrick lauded Kiwanuka's "introspective study of himself and his standing in a post-millennial world".
Songs
1Cold Little Heart9:57
2Black Man in a White World4:18
3Falling4:16