Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) (Purple Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP Sub Pop Cocooned away inside walls of

Cocooned away inside walls of Psychedelic Fuzz in Western Australia they re-created their preferred period one song at a time with the aid of gear and production techniques that sounded like they hadn't been dusted off since 1968

the spirit of our age: the isolation and loneliness that continues to echo in the wake of the pandemic

whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky

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but the album bearing it was nothing to slouch at either

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) (Purple Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP Sub Pop Cocooned away inside walls ofMarking a decade in the industry, Erykah Badus New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) is more than a comebackit's a reinvention. Released at a pivotal point in her career, this double LP finds Badu tapping into the socio political urgency of the times, wrapped in a dense, future soul soundscape thats equal parts experimental and deeply rooted in Black musical tradition. Badu assembles an underground dream team of producers and engineers to build a