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- Summary: The first full-length solo release from OutKast's André 3000 in 17 years is an instrumental album featuring a variety of flutes.
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- Record Label: Epic
- Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Jazz, Ambient, New Age, Electro-Acoustic, Soul Jazz, Left-Field Rap, Progressive Electronic, Meditation/Relaxation, Healing, Flute/New Age
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Nov 20, 2023Moving in this decidedly uncommercial new direction is a bolder step, which proves him to be the sincere and genuine artist that his biggest fans always knew he was.
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Nov 20, 2023New Blue Sun is the most emotionally direct music André has ever made. The methods might be oblique, the instrumentation often unclear, the man himself occasionally missing in action or off on his own pursuits, but the sense of intermixed sadness, loss, and peace that permeates this music is impossible to miss.
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Nov 27, 2023Yes, New Blue Sun is receiving a healthy amount of praise because it’s André 3000, but it’s also a truly wonderful piece of music.
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Nov 16, 2023New Blue Sun is probably not the André 3000 solo debut most OutKast fans had expected or hoped for, but it does continue the integrity and spirit of his creative journey, in a way that's fittingly bizarre and beautiful.
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Dec 8, 2023This album can work when it's in service of something other than itself. Listened to in smaller stretches, it becomes a bit easier to digest, and opens up a bit.
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Nov 17, 2023Ultimately, the Achilles heel of the whole project is how invested, how much fans will truly believe in this. To some, it’s a meme stretched to breaking point, the elasticity of his flute-playing hauled out to become an opaque sheet, void of detail. To others, it’s an excellent – almost unclassifiable – mood piece. Whether it’s the meanderings of an internet-savvy millionaire or the crucial work of a modern day ambient auteur is perhaps in the eye of the beholder.
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UncutDec 8, 2023Despite a few interesting textures, New Blue Sun never really takes flight. [Jan 2024, p.25]