Apollo XXI by Steve Lacy (Vinyl, Nov-2019, LP, 3qtr) *NEW* *FREE Shipping*

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Apollo XXI by Steve Lacy [Vinyl LP]
Track Listing:

• 1 Only If
• 2 Like Me
• 3 Playground
• 4 Basement Jack
• 5 Guide
• 6 Lay Me Down
• 7 Hate CD
• 8 In Lust We Trust
• 9 Love 2 Fast
• 10 Amandla's Interlude
• 11 N Side
• 12 Outro Freestyle/4Ever

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release, the debut solo album from Steve Lacy, best known as the guitarist of space-soul band The Internet. At the ripe age of 20, the Grammy-nominated Compton native already has a veteran's resume; he was Wired Magazine's Tech Visionary, Time Magazine's Most Influential Teen, produced-written-featured with Solange, J Cole, Vampire Weekend, Blood Orange and produced some of Kendrick Lamar's Damn on his iPhone. He's also toured the world with his band mates The Internet, given a TED Talk, worked extensively with Louis Vuitton on behalf of Virgil Abloh (including walking at the LV Paris Fashion Week show) and now releases his debut album on his own terms.

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The majority of the Internet's Grammy-nominated 2015 album Ego Death was produced by the band's newest addition, a high schooler named Steve Lacy.  Word about the guitar-favoring instrumentalist quickly spread. Before he turned 21, Lacy had a hand in Top Ten pop LPs by J. Cole, Tyler, The Creator, Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, Solange, and Vampire Weekend, in addition to well-spent studio time clocked with fellow progressive artists including Kali Uchis, Blood Orange, and Ravyn Lenae.  Lacy juggled this and more while participating in all manner of Internet (and related) projects, and in 2015 started releasing solo work. This included the "song series" Steve Lacy's Demo, six tracks recorded primarily with phone applications.  Apollo XXI, his first album, is a little more refined, advancing his lazing, heartfelt mix of soul and funk with minimal varnish and no evident fuss. The rhythms have a rudimentary, still-demo-like charm, ranging from a functional plod to a hyperactive twitch. Lacy's thin but ringing vocals, often in mid-wattage falsetto, are finely matched with his pleasingly reedy guitar tone, suggesting a lovestruck stupor and other vaguely altered states. At times, he resembles the younger brother of Miguel or the introspective nephew of Van Hunt and Pharrell William (in N. E.R.D. fatigues). His voice is his own, brave enough to front-load his debut LP with a two-part, nine-minute number in which he writes about his gender-blindness and frets about being accepted by friends, family, and himself. That song's weight is immediately counterbalanced with the Jesse Boykins III collaboration "Playground," snappy and flirtatious funk drenched in echo, and a couple wham-bam dalliances that include the Dirty Mind-like "Guide." What follows largely sways and swoons, with Lacy's love takeovers and hangovers related in straightforward and sometimes silly terms. The chest-puffing finale verges on disposable, but it concludes by sliding into an extension of the redemptive "Exit Scott," one of Lacy's contributions to Solange's When I Get Home. ~ Andy Kellman, AllMusic


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