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NxWorries: Why Lawd? review – Anderson .Paak takes his divorce really badly
The producer-singer duo’s sweet nostalgia-funk now has a sour vibe as .Paak switches between anger and self-pity
While the second outing for Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge’s two-man supergroup NxWorries recaptures the soft-edged nostalgia-funk sound of their 2016 debut Yes Lawd!, the lyrical vibe is much darker and more uncertain. It’s Paak’s first album since splitting from Jaylyn Chang, his wife of 13 years and mother of his two children, and the singer/rapper is deep in the slough of divorcee despondency – wildly switching moods between anger, self-pity and desperate horniness. Knxwledge’s dulcet productions keeps things sweet, stitching together Stylistics sitars and shimmering, Georgie Fame sound-beds to sculpt a dreamy 70s soul sound.
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