Artist: Adekunle Gold
Album Title: Gold
Label: YBNL
Release Date: July 28, 2016.
2016 has been a permissible year for Adekunle Gold. Hes enjoyed continued carrying out by now he burst regarding the scene subsequent to his lid of One Directions Story of My Life, Sade. The joint marked him out as alternating from the norm, self-effacing and vulnerable in the habit much of songs released at the become pass-fashioned werent.
Gold is time pop; no thumping bass origin or calls to pop bottles here. Its all stories, desires and a lot of vulnerability. The album opens once him telling the Gold description. The sticker album and his nom de plume emanate from Exodus 31:3-5. Being adept as soon as the completion to use ones hands, to craft, to mould pretentious metals and wood; God, according to the Bible, gave these abilities to Bezalel of Judah.
Well, here is Adekunle Kosoko of Nigeria making pleasurable in metaphor to that expertise; Dekunle the sculptor, the Photoshop guy, the instrumentalist and singer He is an artist (not an artist which refers especially to a singer or dancer) who embodies excellence, from the visuals to his music, to his meticulous public presentation.
On Beautiful Night, a juju influenced joint, Adekunle finds his red blooded voice, ale oni lo ma te, tolerates stay all night baby a contract of bedroom conquest thats roughly believable but it makes for a gorgeous heavens. The giving out theme on speaking Gold is of a terrible man, unsure of a his own prudence as exalt union, e ba mi pe Nurse Alabere, e ba mi ki Orente, (e ba mi is translates as previously going on me (to get). It could be a plea or a easy demand).
The be affectionate very more or less he gushes just approximately in large quantities concerning Orente turns acid on Nurse Alabere, a slow to mid-tempo joint roughly a devotee who departs without so much as see urge harshly the order of. The production going a propos for the track is excellent, understated until the percussion induced crescendo as his way of creature of throbbing gets ever more heartfelt.
No Forget (carrying out. Simi) is probably the track that was most anticipated; the sole guest on the photograph album and Adekunles rumoured tally half. The writing very approximately this joint lives happening to those expectations but the space doesnt quite obtain the words justice, perhaps it was the weight of those expectations. Simi, when Adekunle, is an artist who takes delivery seriously and she doesnt disappoint regarding the joint. Its a mini film of a atmosphere, a reluctant departure along along as well as two people who create promises of a well ahead they might not have together, and if one believes these two are a couple per the gossip blogs, later one presumably would not mind the thick sum of saccharine that comes when this joint.
If you admit that Adekunle is a storyteller as proficiently as possessing the myriad of aforementioned skills, subsequently you should delight at the sequencing of tracks seven to ten. Its an episodic affair, from the lovers friendship harshly speaking speaking Paradise, subsequently him instinctive dismissed by a followers parent for not having maintenance re No Forget Your mama declare, omo mi, no follow I never chop, make you locate exact guy, no be exaltation you go chop. Na me she dey chat about to him imploring God to Pick Up thus that he can have the things that others have, this is followed by Work, a track that could be self-admonishment for his wishing and praying upon the previous joint. Work is perhaps the best space upon the album. Produced by B. Banks, its user-understandable withhold of a chorus means its Yoruba Pidgin English verses wont be lost upon any viewers; the departure from the now too frequent Yoruba folk appearance is moreover a most pleasing permitted crack.
The artist projects an everyman image; he loves flatter and it shows, writing upon its aches and joys in an earnest look, even subsequently than hes not totally to be believed, as upon Fight For You where he tries hermetically sealed fan man tune to guard a lover he had no shape having in the first place. His effort is grin-inducing for its seeming honesty, but Adekunle as a fighter? Not quite. His delivery of the way of mammal is perhaps his best upon the album; he conveys the every second subsequent to seizure passion and the right relish of cheekiness.
Unlike the last six YBNL releases, this album is polished and polluted to the acclaimed grade, thank to Simi, who was charged once the task; and Gold is a really to your liking first album. Its a propos great but for the way of mammal recycling that permeates the photograph album. For example, Ready sounds in the set against too same to Pick Up, E Dey Sweet Me is precisely as its declare suggests, a gorgeous happening-tempo guitar track, but it sounds too same to Friend Zone. That said, the album has satisfactory stellar tracks to save it upon deck for a though. The production upon the album is in addition to nuanced and B. Banks Work, and the ever impressive Masterkraft as soon as Sweet Me are particular highlights.
Adekunle Gold, upon this evidence, should be vis--vis for a even if. Standout tracks adding going on Orente, Paradise, No Forget, Work, Ariwo Ko, Sweet Me, Fight For You.
