- Sibambaneni
- Raise Up
- Lost Without
- Softness as a Weapon
- Hard to Believe
- Who You Give Your Heart To
- Samthing's Interlude
- Dreams Fall
- The Warning
- Cry Everything
- No New Lies
- Something Like a War
- Call It Down
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Adam Bainbridge Synthesizer,Vocals (Background),Bass,Piano,Guitar,Vocals
Sampha Sisay Synthesizer,Vocals (Background)
Nadia Nair Vocals
Samthing Soweto Vocals
Seinabo Sey Vocals
Braxton Cook Guitar,Saxophone
Fabiana Palladino Vocals (Background)
Ryan Ashley Vocals (Background)
Amanda Khiri Vocals (Background)
Pauli The PSM Drums
Alexandria Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Harriet Brown Guitar
Mathis Picard Organ,Piano,Wurlitzer,Synthesizer,Synthesizer Bass
Akua Vocals (Background)
Kyla Moscovitch Trumpet
Natasha Nathanielsz Harp
Jason Arce Saxophone
Rashaan Carter Bass
Gabriel Cabezas Cello
Evan Sutton Guitar
Mustafa Ahmed Percussion
Shawn Conley Double Bass
August Rosenbaum Piano
Akua Carson Vocals (Background)
Cosima Vocals
Jeffery Miller Trombone
Bryndon Cook Guitar,Vocals,Strings,Vocals (Background)
Vuyo Sotashe Vocals,Strings
Bahamadia Vocals
Jazmine Sullivan Vocals
Rob Moose Viola,Violin
Byron Stingily Vocals (Background)
Daniel Aged Bass
Hanna Benn Synthesizer,Choir/Chorus
Robin Carlsson Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Sampha Sisay Composer
Nadia Nair Composer
Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba Composer
Alexandria Composer
Harriet Brown Composer
Mathis Picard Composer
Nadia Johansson Composer
Stephen Garrett Composer
Isha Dipika Artwork
Benjamin Thomas Engineer
Michelle Yong Photography
Parks Vincent Management
Chris Hills Engineer
Philippe Zdar Mixing
Evan Sutton Engineer
Scott Stallone Engineer
Joe Gallagher Engineer
Antoine Poyeton Mixing Assistant
Cosima Composer
Cosima Ehni Composer
Vuyo Sotashe Composer
Will Boston Composer
Mike Marsh Mastering
Lonnie Simmons Composer
Jazmine Sullivan Composer
Rob Moose String Arrangements
Timothy Mosley Composer
Sylvester Stewart Composer
Jonah Ellis Composer
Todd Rundgren Composer
Brett Shaw Engineer
Charles Buie Composer
Alisa Peoples Composer
Chris Tabron Engineer
Daniel Aged Composer,Producer,Programming
Antonia Reed Composer
Kelela Mizanekristos Composer
Benjamin Bush Composer
Hanna Benn Composer,Choir Arrangement
Robin Carlsson Composer


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Overview
Avowing their DJ-minded methodology, Adam Bainbridge starts the third Kindness LP with an excerpt from Underground Resistance's homiletic "Transition": "There will be people who will say, 'You don't mix this with that,' and you will say, 'Watch me.'" Bainbridge uses the guidance of UR's Cornelius Harris to indicate that they are back on their grind, fortified by the intermediary work on recordings by Solange and Kindness affiliates Blood Orange and Robyn. The words indeed seem to have guided most aspects of Something Like a War. Assembled from tricontinental sessions in over 20 private and commercial studios, its polyglot art-pop integrates slick funk and Afro-beat, house and new jack swing, and dub and garage, inclusive of other flavors. Its cast is typically Kindness in makeup but Quincy Jones-like in scale. There are nearly 20 voices, well-utilized string and horn sections, and enough instrumentalists to form a few bands with standard lineups. Producer and principal writer Bainbridge programs the drums, plays some of the instruments, arranges, and applies guileful Todd Rundgren and Playa samples. After a unifying, spirit-lifting house warm-up that almost sounds live enough to have been recorded at a small loft party, Something Like a War gets down to private business. Vulnerability, patience, action, and uninhibited expression are all upheld as imperatives for intimacy. Seinabo Sey, propelled by a springy Rashaan Carter bassline, instructs with sweetness to "Give it up, don't be afraid to fall," a sentiment reinforced with the heady next track through Bainbridge's consoling baritone, accentuated in the background with Robyn and falsetto house legend Byron Stingily. They lead the way and build up to powerhouse Jazmine Sullivan, who on the pulsing and swirling "Hard to Believe" is at her most urgent and commanding since "Don't Make Me Wait." When love falls apart -- the last five songs, all convalescent in some form, sift through the wreckage -- openness is advanced as no less necessary. The quality slips only on a ballad that approximates a late-'80s demo by Smith & Mighty or Massive Attack, lifting again with another Robyn showcase (the storming "Cry Everything") and an emotionally lacerated Cosima ballad pitched somewhere between Maze's "Joy and Pain" and This Mortal Coil ("No New Lies"). "Something Like a War" in no manner references the like-titled documentary about the sterilization of women in India, but rapper Bahamadia -- along with Sullivan, one of only two vocalists to break from the album's tenderness -- swings at another form of oppression. She lands a direct hit just before Bainbridge, Cosima, and Nadia Nair exchange verses on a trembling finale urging against self-concealment. ~ Andy Kellman
Product Details
Release Date: | 09/06/2019 |
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Label: | FEMALE ENERGY |
UPC: | 0656605345659 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Kindness Primary ArtistAdam Bainbridge Synthesizer,Vocals (Background),Bass,Piano,Guitar,Vocals
Sampha Sisay Synthesizer,Vocals (Background)
Nadia Nair Vocals
Samthing Soweto Vocals
Seinabo Sey Vocals
Braxton Cook Guitar,Saxophone
Fabiana Palladino Vocals (Background)
Ryan Ashley Vocals (Background)
Amanda Khiri Vocals (Background)
Pauli The PSM Drums
Alexandria Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Harriet Brown Guitar
Mathis Picard Organ,Piano,Wurlitzer,Synthesizer,Synthesizer Bass
Akua Vocals (Background)
Kyla Moscovitch Trumpet
Natasha Nathanielsz Harp
Jason Arce Saxophone
Rashaan Carter Bass
Gabriel Cabezas Cello
Evan Sutton Guitar
Mustafa Ahmed Percussion
Shawn Conley Double Bass
August Rosenbaum Piano
Akua Carson Vocals (Background)
Cosima Vocals
Jeffery Miller Trombone
Bryndon Cook Guitar,Vocals,Strings,Vocals (Background)
Vuyo Sotashe Vocals,Strings
Bahamadia Vocals
Jazmine Sullivan Vocals
Rob Moose Viola,Violin
Byron Stingily Vocals (Background)
Daniel Aged Bass
Hanna Benn Synthesizer,Choir/Chorus
Robin Carlsson Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Technical Credits
Adam Bainbridge Programming,Drum Programming,String Arrangements,Composer,Engineer,ProducerSampha Sisay Composer
Nadia Nair Composer
Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba Composer
Alexandria Composer
Harriet Brown Composer
Mathis Picard Composer
Nadia Johansson Composer
Stephen Garrett Composer
Isha Dipika Artwork
Benjamin Thomas Engineer
Michelle Yong Photography
Parks Vincent Management
Chris Hills Engineer
Philippe Zdar Mixing
Evan Sutton Engineer
Scott Stallone Engineer
Joe Gallagher Engineer
Antoine Poyeton Mixing Assistant
Cosima Composer
Cosima Ehni Composer
Vuyo Sotashe Composer
Will Boston Composer
Mike Marsh Mastering
Lonnie Simmons Composer
Jazmine Sullivan Composer
Rob Moose String Arrangements
Timothy Mosley Composer
Sylvester Stewart Composer
Jonah Ellis Composer
Todd Rundgren Composer
Brett Shaw Engineer
Charles Buie Composer
Alisa Peoples Composer
Chris Tabron Engineer
Daniel Aged Composer,Producer,Programming
Antonia Reed Composer
Kelela Mizanekristos Composer
Benjamin Bush Composer
Hanna Benn Composer,Choir Arrangement
Robin Carlsson Composer
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