Artist – Album: Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
Released: 8th
February 2010
Sounds Like: Awesomeness. Just awesome.
Ok, so i’ve just been out for a few drinks and I’m hoping to
go out for a few more so, honestly, I can’t be bothered writing a comprehensive
review...
This was a refreshingly brilliant album though. The
bookending tracks ‘On Coming from a
Broken Home’ are two parts of the same fabulous, spoken word poem about his upbringing, set around
a soothing Kanye West sample (‘Flashing
Lights’, for those that are interested).
Elsewhere: ‘Me and the
Devil’ – good; ‘Your Soul and Mine’ –
good; ‘I’m New Here’ – gooooooood.
In conclusion (haha, yes I’m done already!), this is an extraordinary
album that takes in trip hop and electronica influences and uses them to update
blues sounds. It’s a great album from the erstwhile jazz poet and the last before
he died, and certainly one that deserves more effort than I’m giving it...
Albumaday... rating:
9/10
1. On
Coming from a Broken Home (Part 1) – 2:20
2. Me
and the Devil – 3:33
3. I’m
New Here – 3:33
4. Your
Soul and Mine – 2:02
5. Parents
(Interlude) – 0:18
6. I’ll
Take Care of You – 2:58
7. Being
Blessed (Interlude) – 0:12
8. Where
Did the Night Go – 1:14
9. I
Was Guided (Interlude) – 0:14
10. New
York Is Killing Me – 4:29
11. Certain
Things (Interlude) – 0:08
12. Running
– 2:00
13. The
Crutch – 2:44
14. I’ve
Been Me (Interlude) – 0:16
15. On
Coming from a Broken Home (Part 2) – 2:15
Listen to ‘I’m New
Here’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_astp3BjM
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