- Record Label: Because
- Release Date: Feb 24, 2014
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May 20, 2014A Long Way to the Beginning thus finds the young upstart at a crossroads, between overt legacy mining and striking out on his own, a tentatively successful effort that at least demonstrates Seun's innate skills as a bandleader and a radical.
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Q MagazineApr 25, 2014This third LP has all the Afrobeat pioneer's brute power, if little of his subtlety. [May 2014, p.113]
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Apr 25, 2014A strong thread of anti-corporate, anti-corruption liberation ideology runs through A Long Way To The Beginning.
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Apr 25, 2014Third time round the playing is faster and harder, with some wonderfully intricate horn parts, though the production of US jazzer Robert Glasper tends to bury Seun's righteous lyrics.