Kelis - Food

Kelis - FoodKelis describes her sixth album as a kind of unspoken lovefest, involving two unlikely partners. On the one hand, there is Kelis Rogers, who first came to prominence singing the hook of Ol Dirty Bastards 1999 hit "Got Your Money". This was the visually and sonically compelling 20 year old whose debut album Kaleidoscope helped usher in the wave of sharp, thrillingly futuristic R&B that dominated the charts in the early Noughties, as exemplified by her

You can hear the smiling

There’s the ebullient “Daylight”

embossed and debossed detail gatefolded sleeve with updated artwork and new liner notes

Emancipator

Residing in Los Angeles

dealing with the aftermath of such trauma can take time

Crafted in the wake of a crippling two year spell of writer’s block during which he was unable to compose any music at all

only now with purpose"

perhaps the very act of moving away from childhood locales stirred up “memories from random times in my life

Fans of Fink will recognise all of the band’s most coveted elements in the release of a new 12”

house and bright-beaming synthwork

adding that “the world doesn't get better but we do