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Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes review: Fatherhood inspires Mercury winner's soulful comeback, writes ADRIAN THRILLS
ADRIAN THRILLS: His open-mindedness has served him well in his career, though, landing him a No.1 album with 2016's Love & Hate and a Mercury Prize for 2019's Kiwanuka.
Casting the net wider, he also cites the virtuoso guitar work of John Frusciante, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour as key influences on him - and it's relatively easy to spot all of the above in the 11 new tracks here. He has also reconvened the same backroom team he used so successfully in 2016 and 2019, once again co-writing everything with American musician Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton, of Gnarls Barkley, and fellow Londoner Dean Josiah Cover - aka Inflo - a BRIT-winning producer who was once likened to a young Quincy Jones by Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard. There's heartache too, most notably on the weather-beaten soul ballad Four Long Years - a break-up song inspired by Mazzy Star's indie-pop classic Fade Into You - and Floating Parade, on which he deals with his anxieties by harking back to an analogue synth sound pioneered in the late 1990s by bands like Air and Morcheeba.
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