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- Summary: This is the second full-length release from North Carolina-based singer-songwriter Anjimile.
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- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Sep 18, 2023On The King, Anjimile crafts a masterstroke folk album that binds differences through time for unparalleled emotional clarity.
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Sep 18, 2023The most remarkable thing about The King, however, is that its synthesis of sound and vision makes it feel so thoroughly like a monumental record.
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UncutSep 18, 2023This is an album about distortion, not just of traditional folk instruments but of the emotions - grief and rage and bewilderment - that he experiences as a black trans person in America. [Oct 2023, p.23]
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Sep 18, 2023This is a powerful, balanced, personal and at times harrowing album that is deserving of your attention. Each listen seems to add further layers of depth and seriousness. Spend time with it.
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Sep 19, 2023The King is full of voices, both his own and those of the ones he sings about and for, and that communion is one of the album’s biggest strengths. It does maintain some habits that threaten to curdle the gravity of his songs into preciousness or melodrama, like his quivering vibrato and theatrical mannerisms (at times, the songs almost sound like folky musical theatre numbers). But, overall, these nitpicked conflicts don’t negate the sheer power of what Anjimile has constructed here.
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Sep 18, 2023The King offers no light at the end of the tunnel, no promises of inevitable redemption. Grief and anger only give way to more grief and anger. What it does offer though, is an invitation to feel deeply,