Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz review – a sparkling solo debut
Those difficult feelings – and others, about living in 'a time of tenderness and rage' – became snaggle-toothed synth-punk cuts and bouncy synth-pop sounds. On Drop, there's beat-boxing; on The Most, a Sleng Teng reggae riddim ambush; while on Somebody New, you can hear a punk-funk echo of New Order. Only ILY, a finger-picked folk song addressed to his sister, breaks character, adding 'balladeer' to Adebimpe's varied CV (former stop-motion animator, illustrator). 'How'd you get so low?' asks God Knows, a perky, doo-wop-adjacent song about a flailing relationship.
Everything about Adebimpe's magnetic presence fronting of one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 00s is present and correct on Thee Black Boltz: his warm fluency, wistful anger and genre versatility. But his pop instincts have come to the fore on these 11 streamlined songs; witness Magnetic, one of the best things he's ever done.
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