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Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Released: 08/02/2010
XL Recordings
An enormously influential force in the worlds of hip-hop, r'n'b and jazz, if you don't know Gil Scott-Heron's music you will almost certainly have encountered those he has inspired. On his first album in over 15 years, his rhymes are set against unusual, atmospheric electronic backdrops. Its strange... and it works.
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80 %
The Telegraph“This is music in which the old has been made new again...” Scott-Heron may have had his run-ins with drugs and the law, but this is neither an apologetic nor self-justifying album, it’s the sound of a man unafraid of experience, who understands his place...
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85%
Pitchfork“A man renewed...” If Gil Scott-Heron's creative resurgence continues after this reintroduction to his poignantly aging voice, we could be looking at one of the most memorably resurrected careers of our time...
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90%
Drowned In Sound“Dark, dark, dark, and great...” Although the resulting record clocks in at a trim 28 minutes, it contains such multitudes that it never feels underdone...
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80 %
The Times“Beats like clanking jail bars...” You can taste both regret and resilience in this slow-cooking stew of hip-hop, blues, soul and spoken word...
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80 %
Uncut“The revolutionary jazz poet is finally forced to face his demons....” A radical overhaul of a career, it's a brave, brilliant and highly personal statement...
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80 %
MusicOMH“Brilliance abounds...” To paraphrase a lyric on the album it's "hard to get to know and difficult to forget". It is, ultimately, a remarkably honest and self-reflective collection...
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80 %
Guardian“It's blistering stuff...” His first album in 16 years offers a way back from the wilderness. XL's Richard Russell frames Scott-Heron's ravaged ruminations on "broken homes" and the like against an eerie backdrop of minimalist electro and bass...
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The Independent“Like the man himself, Gil Scott-Heron's new album is far from perfect...” As with the man, so with this album: it might fall short in some regards, but such is the heart and the mind involved that what little is left should be treasured accordingly...
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