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8.0
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NME
Okereke’s most ambitious work to date combines glitchy guitars and West African beats to eviscerate the powers that be
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
The frenzied feel of the record as a whole might scare off some Bloc Party fans, but this is vital, exciting stuff. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
DIY
By holding a mirror up to society, ‘2042’ encourages us all to keep fighting the good fight
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
This is an album about love, personal intimacy and sexuality, but also about race and ethnicity, immigration, politics and the wider misuse of power
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6.1
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Pitchfork
The former Bloc Party frontman attempts a blazing indictment of institutional racism on his latest solo effort, but too often reaches for stock characters and sloganeering
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
2042 may be the work of an accomplished songwriter, tackling pressing issues, but it’s also a hodgepodge – the result of an artist struggling to find his musical voice
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
The Bloc Party frontman’s fourth solo album takes in Grenfell and Windrush to make the political personal
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
An album that has its superb moments, but also its frustrations
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6.0
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The FT
Songs about gay hustlers and smooth disco pick-ups sit alongside an interlude of a sampled speech by an MP
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