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Loyle Carner: Hopefully! review – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels | Album of the week
The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yet
Yet for all Carner’s accounts of the internal and external conflict involved in fatherhood, it’s hard to buy the more damning self-critique – on Lyin he claims to be “just a man trained to kill, to love I never had the skill” – from an artist who makes music this heartfelt. Lyin introduces a third lyrical mode, capturing early parenthood’s transcendent surreality in a stream of impressionistic imagery: Carner looks for reassurance under sofa cushions; his bedroom walls fall “to Poseidon”. Big Thief – Incomprehensible This taster of the Brooklyn band’s sixth album, Double Infinity, ups the tempo as frontperson Adrianne Lenker makes peace with the aging process in her trademark stream-of-consciousness style.
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