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Kenna, “Relations”: The Singles Bar Review
“Relations (An Ode To You & Me)”, the latest single off the highly anticipated next chapter of Kenna’s Land 2 Air Chronicles EP series sounds exactly like the description on the Soundcloud page: David Byrne meets Rick James! It’s a low-key little funk blast that sees Kenna doing his best Talking Heads/Byrne impression and succeeding. If this is an indication of the direction the next EP is going in then expect more ’80’s-inspired jams like this instead of the sonic […]
The Viewfinder: “Chains” by Kenna
When you’ve covered someone as much as we’ve covered Kenna, the trick then becomes “what the hell else can we say about this guy?”. Hella underrated, incredibly dope, and feeding us with new music this year for the first time in four years. His work has brought out the best in the Neptunes’ production, and his latest EP, Land 2 Air Chronicles 1 , is the hotness (and it’s only three bucks on iTunes-you have NO excuse). The first video from the project has surfaced, […]
Hear Here!: Kenna’s “Chains”
Kenna’s one of those artists that makes me wonder if the American music-buying public is completely dumb. If I ruled the world, this guy would have sold millions of copies of his first two albums, New Sacred Cow and Make Sure They See My Face. Of course, he also doesn’t fall into the music-buying public’s fairly narrow definition of what a black artist should sound like, a fate that has also recently prevented commercial breakthroughs by the likes of Kele/Bloc […]