- Record Label: Sony Music
- Release Date: Jan 28, 2022
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MojoFeb 1, 2022This is as perfect as any album can be. [Mar 2022, p.98]
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Feb 1, 2022The track sequencing is skip-proof. This and the film belong in every library on the planet.
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Feb 1, 2022It’s alarming how many of the issues cited by artists and presenters persist today—police violence, systemic racism, poverty, cultural erasure—yet that makes the music sound fresh, lively, relevant in its celebration and commiseration. Both the film and the soundtrack bear that weight of history gracefully and jubilantly.
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Feb 1, 2022Whether the performances are stark and embittered (Simone’s) or somber and haunted (the Staples’), the tracks communicate years of struggle and pain — a far cry from the sense of hope that ran through earlier calls to arms, like Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”