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Aug 12, 2024Lungu Boy should go down as another triumph for Asake. The Nigerian’s third album is at once cohesive and versatile and will surely see deserved play in the bedroom, at the gym, on the dancefloor and beyond.
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Aug 12, 2024While his follow-up isn’t as consistently strong, it’s more versatile, going on a trip across the Black diaspora that he has enchanted to arena-filling success.
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Sep 4, 2024Lungu Boy has some great material, but having risen to the top with back-to-back successes, Asake appears to be experiencing a few growing pains.
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Aug 12, 2024Lungu Boy keeps the faith but explores new sounds, becoming Asake’s most rhythmically and emotionally diverse album yet, with some experiments more successful than others.
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Aug 16, 2024So though Lungu Boy will deliver on Asake fans’ expectations, what’s missing is something more personal.
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Aug 12, 2024Although ‘Lungu Boy’ sees Asake still rewriting the rulebook on Afro-pop, you have to push through a lot of samey repeats of his past work before you get to the good stuff.