Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)

Limited edition "Shades of Purple" colored vinyl

2022 reissue of R&B singer-songwriter Erykah Badu's fourth album

This is a series of celebrated records from multi-platinum-selling, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter/actress Erykah Badu. Badu explores a post-Civil Rights landscape in which African Americans have been left to sort out how to have a cultural identity as part of a nation that had, up until very recently, been a dedicated adversary. 

Features the singles "Soldier," "The Healer," and "Honey." The album is part two of the series New Amerykah Part 1 & 2.

Pitchfork called this a "pointedly social" record series and expressed that New Amerykah seems rooted in a love for the music of that period — the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights movements in which popular black artists made records filled not only with visionary, avant-garde sounds, but with a social expansiveness, a fire and ambition to say something important to and for a community. Reviews put this record in a line with those artists: Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder and Funkadelic.

 

 

1. 20 Feet Tall

2. Window Seat

3. Agitation

4. Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)

5. Gone Baby, Don't Be Long

6. Umm Hmm

7. Love

8. You Loving Me (Session)

9. Fall in Love (Your Funeral)

10. Strawberry Incense

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