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  • Artist(s): Adrian Younge
  • Summary: Started back in 2013 before being put on the back burner while they scored The Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage, the collaboration between Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge features guest appearances from Marsha Ambrosius, Bilal, CeeLo Green, Keyon Harrold, Eryn Allen Kane, Karolina,Started back in 2013 before being put on the back burner while they scored The Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage, the collaboration between Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge features guest appearances from Marsha Ambrosius, Bilal, CeeLo Green, Keyon Harrold, Eryn Allen Kane, Karolina, Ladybug Mecca, Angela Muñoz, No I.D., Loren Oden, James Poyser, Questlove, Raphael Saadiq, Laetitia Sadier, Luther Vandross, and Saudia Yasmein. Expand
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  1. Aug 14, 2018
    90
    Highlights are well placed within an astutely paced sequence of short and bittersweet love songs and instrumentals, all substantive and ripe for sampling. ... Piano, strings, and horns have greater presence, providing a lighter, often joyous touch that complements the mostly muscular drums and chunky basslines.
  2. Aug 14, 2018
    70
    It's an analogue oasis of the past that rejuvenates for the present.
  3. Aug 14, 2018
    67
    The two musicians have tasked themselves with bridging generational and genre gaps between black music’s multitudes, but The Midnight Hour finds them still fiddling with how to do so.
  4. Mojo
    Aug 14, 2018
    60
    Younge's Axelrodish take on orchestral soul dominates. [Sep 2018, p.96]
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