ADRIAN YOUNGE PRESENTS VENICE DAWN
Something About April
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Before he earned plaudits for scoring the 2008 neo-blaxploitation flick Black Dynamite, Adrian Younge released Venice Dawn, conceptualized as a soundtrack for a film that didn’t exist. Something About April is the sequel—and again the producer and multi-instrumentalist reveals a crate-digger sensibility, using electric pianos, organs, fuzz-tone guitars, and heavy bass to show his love for freaky psychedelic soul and Spaghetti Western scores. Unlike the feel-good soul revivalists at, say, the Daptone label, Younge infuses even his most out-and-out love songs with ’70s-appropriate malaise and paranoia. He’s a product of the hip-hop generation, and the best of these cuts (among them the chillingly sexy funk instrumentals “Thunderstrike” and “Sirens”) are Wu-Tang Clan tracks waiting to happen.
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