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Mustard: Faith in a Mustard Seed review – lacking in spice


The fourth album from Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us producer features cloying love songs, odes to Mom and thanks to God

When Jesus told his followers to have “faith the size of a mustard seed” he was partly thinking ahead to the career of LA hitmaker Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, whose 2014 debut album predicted 10 Summers of chart domination. Sadly, it’s the kind of club-rap ripper that’s in short supply on his fourth album, an occasionally biographical tale of childhood nostalgia, middle-age melancholy and returning to the church – albeit voiced by 20 guests, from longtime rap foil Ty Dolla $ign to soul royalty Charlie Wilson. But when he reins it in, he gets closer to that special sauce: Migos’s Quavo dusts laconic charisma on to strip-club jam One of Them Ones, while Vince Staples and Schoolboy Q offer cool respite on the deep-rolling G-funk of Pressured Up.

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