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Oct 23, 2017The album is a little verbose in places as Okereke delights and demeans in equal measure past loves and lovers.
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Oct 16, 2017Instrumentally, the generous helpings of tenor sax, soft electric piano and clarinets give Fatherland a depth that warrants further listens once Kele’s rounded melodies and acoustic guitar structures have been dissected.
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Oct 4, 2017Stripped of harsh digital fuzz and angular guitars, Fatherland is an honest, satisfying window into the heart and mind of the man himself.
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Oct 4, 2017A solo album that feels closer to home and, ironically more so than the last, doesn't pull any punches emotionally.
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Oct 9, 2017Fatherland is a significantly simplified effort, a work of gentle, singer-songwriter consideration largely haunted by lost loves rendered as exactingly as still lifes.