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- Summary: The surprise release from André 3000 is a seven-track release of piano music he recorded mostly with his iPhone or laptop almost 10 years before 2023's New Blue Sun.
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- Record Label: Epic / Sony Music
- Genre(s): Alternative, Improvisation
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May 20, 2025While more of a window into a long and winding process than a fully polished project, it remains an illuminating body of work that helps to paint a fuller picture of André 3000 as a singular artist in constant flux.
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May 20, 2025They have to be heard as part of a larger experiment, an inquiry into what happens when you reject the careerism at the heart of the pop machine and decide to go a quieter, less goal-oriented way.
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May 20, 20257 Piano Sketches is a tribute to enthusiasm for its own sake. He sat down at the piano and played around, with no thought of living up to his history — just jumping into a moment of freedom and riding it all the way through.
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May 20, 2025‘7 Piano Sketches’ feels slight – a bookmark, rather than a tome.