hugo Loyle Carner SKU: 26.00 30.00 £26.00 - £30.00 £26.00 - £30.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: EMI Released Date: 21st October 2022 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Buying Options Choose an option180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve180g 1LP Gatefold SleeveClear hugo quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info In hugo, there’s a central question that Loyle Carner keeps coming back to: “I’m young, Black, successful and have a platform – but where do I go next?” The answer is explored in this epic scream of a third album. With urgent delivery and gloriously widescreen production, Carner confronts both the deeply personal (“You can’t hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. So how can I hate my father without hating me?) and the highly political (“I told the black man he didn’t understand I reached the white man he wouldn’t take my hand”). Cinematic in scale and scope, hugo is both a rallying war cry for a generation forged in fire and a study of the personal internal conflict that drives the rest of the album – as a mixed-race Black man, as an artist, as a father and as a son. With Mercury and Brits nominations, NME Awards and appearances in global brand campaigns (Nike, YSL, Timberland), Carner has undoubtedly had a meteoric rise to the top, culminating with his second album Not Waving, But Drowning charting at number 3 in the UK albums chart in 2019. However, hugo sees Carner taking a sharp detour from his previous work, putting it down to lockdown and the “hedonistic side of career being stripped away. There were no shows, no backstage, no festivals, no photoshoots”. By continuing to write in these tumultuous times with a renewed clarity and sense of artistic freedom, Carner reached deeper beneath the surface than he ever had before. The result is his most cathartic and ambitious record yet, a coruscating journey into the heart of what it means to be alive in these tumultuous times, and one which looks set to neatly cement his position as one of the most potent and vital young talents around today. Working alongside renowned producer kwes. (Solange, Kelela, Nao), Carner leaves no stone unturned on this album, in both its sound and its stories. In a 10-track album that moves from gorgeous neo-soul moments to thundering hip hop, with immediate, infectious bangers and sampled interludes from non musicians (mixed-race Guyanese poet John Agard and youth activist and politician Athian Akec) Carner shifts seamlessly from micro to macro, confronting everything from strained relationships with family to the societal tears caused by class stratification. It also lays bare bruises in his personal life that he has never revealed before – often in painful, deeply uncomfortable ways, focusing on Carner’s experience of becoming a father in the context of growing up without contact with his biological father. With the song “Polyfilla”, against the backdrop of a warm melodic beat, Carner explores his desire to “break the chains in the cycle” of dysfunctional Black fatherhood, commenting on the narrative of fatherhood in the genre, and saying a key part of the process was realising that his father “grew up in a world where nobody showed him how to love or nurture”. The follow up track “A Lasting Place” is an exploration of the MC’s failure and inability to be perfect in this mission. The album closer is a powerful statement of love and forgiveness; with his signature lyrical dexterity, Carner declares his relentless commitment to his son and sees forgiving his father as a key part of this. The song closes with an emotional ending of Carner telling his dad “still I’m lucky yo that we talk”. There’s a striking duality of hugo’s bold, multilayered tracks and its often starkly intimate and tender lyricism, and that dichotomy is deliberate – it is a message for young Black men, but really, anyone, who is listening. Cognizant of the immense pain and fear and confusion that we are faced with everyday, Carner has thrown down the gauntlet, defying us not to rise above the fray, wake up each day and be ambitious. Ambitious in building strong personal relationships. Ambitious in our pursuit of our goals. Ambitious in never refusing to back down against injustice. Rejecting the title of leader, Loyle Carner sees himself “as holding up a mirror”, and that clearly translates into the album’s universal messages. Artist Loyle Carner Genre Rap / Hip Hop Label EMI Buying Options 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve , 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 180g , 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Hate Nobody Knows Georgetown Speed Of Plight Homerton Blood On My Nikes Plastic A Lasting Place Polyfilla HGU Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Loyle Carner and more from Rap / Hip Hop View Product Quick View Loyle Carner Not Waving, But Drowning Rock And Pop | AMF Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th April 2019 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loyle Carner Not Waving, But Drowning £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: AMF Records SKU: AMFLP0012 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Loyle Carner Yesterday’s Gone Rap / Hip Hop | Virgin Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th January 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loyle Carner Yesterday’s Gone £18.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Virgin Records SKU: AMF7 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists / Wu Tang Clan Wu Trax On Wax Rap / Hip Hop | Cleopatra Records | 1LP Released 16th February 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists / Wu Tang Clan Wu Trax On Wax £20.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Cleopatra Records SKU: CLPLP1843 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trippie Redd A Love Letter To You 5 Rap / Hip Hop | 10K Projects | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th September 2023 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trippie Redd A Love Letter To You 5 £33.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: 10K Projects SKU: 130441181 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Heavy D And The Boyz Living Large… Rap / Hip Hop | MCA | 1LP Released 13th July 2022 £7.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Heavy D And The Boyz Living Large… £7.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: MCA SKU: nn246002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th July 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Presents The Midnight Hour Rap / Hip Hop | Linear Labs | 2LP Released 13th July 2018 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Presents The Midnight Hour £31.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Linear Labs SKU: LL037LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle Rap / Hip Hop | Warlock | 2LP Released 3rd October 2012 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle £22.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Warlock SKU: TEG75510LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View SIPHO PRAYERS & PARANOIA R&B | Dirty Hit | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th October 2023 £24.00 Select options SIPHO PRAYERS & PARANOIA £24.00 Genre: R&B Label: Dirty Hit Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th October 2023 Read More Select options Paul's picks View Product Quick View Souls of Mischief 93 ‘Til Infinity Rap / Hip Hop | Sony | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th February 2024 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Souls of Mischief 93 ‘Til Infinity £29.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Sony SKU: 19658853611 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and The Soul Brother Rap / Hip Hop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 19th April 2024 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and The Soul Brother £34.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1633T Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 19th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arrested Development For The FKN Love Rap / Hip Hop | Wienerworld | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th June 2022 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arrested Development For The FKN Love £26.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Wienerworld SKU: RN1023 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tricky Maxinquaye (Super Deluxe) Rap / Hip Hop | UMR/Island | 1LP, 3LP Released 13th October 2023 £26.00 - £39.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Tricky Maxinquaye (Super Deluxe) £26.00 - £39.00 Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: UMR/Island Formats: 1LP, 3LP Released Date: 13th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options See more in Rap / Hip Hop Start again
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