by
Jim Legxacy
- Record Label: XL Recordings
- Release Date: Jul 18, 2025
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Jul 18, 2025Black British Music is brighter, poppier, bolder in its stylistic leaps, lurching without warning from idiosyncratic pop R&B – laced with sped-up vocal samples that inevitably evoke Kanye West’s early “chipmunk soul” productions – to the alt-rock of ’06 Wayne Rooney.
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Jul 18, 2025A potential future classic.
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Jul 21, 2025A sonic patchwork of disparate influences over a nucleus of Black London musicality, and imbuing each thread with an undeniable protagonist energy.
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Jul 23, 2025As much as the cultural specificity of the Black British experience informs this record, it’s his own life as a Black British youth navigating trauma and loss, as he explains on the album opener “Context,” that lends it weight.
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Jul 18, 2025With Jim at the vanguard, he’s crafting a new canon, one that takes an omnivorous approach to genre in a way that’s deft yet earnest, arty yet catchy, intricate yet immediate.
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Jul 18, 2025It’s hard to point to any weak points on black british music, but a few songs feel less distinct: the breezy Afropop of “S.O.S.” sounds a bit anonymous next to the rest of these songs (admittedly, it also sounds like a potential hit), while the submerged sound of “Tiger Driver ’91” veers uncomfortably close to Drake territory.