Sounds

REVIEW: NxWorries’ “Yes Lawd!”

by Darcy MacDonald

A collab between one of 2016’s most compelling hip hop/soul talents — Anderson .Paak — and Philly producer Knxwledge.

nxworries-yes-lawdNxWorries, Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)

All praises due! This full-length collab between one of 2016’s most compelling hip hop/soul talents — Oxnard, CA’s Anderson .Paak — and Philly producer Knxwledge follows their debut EP (Link Up & Suede) with the grooves and grit we’ve come to anticipate from both artists. Yes Lawd! is a woozy prayer for the souls of well-meaning hedonists, a love record for disenfranchised romantics set to the swing of dusty, sweeping samples that back .Paak’s convincing croon whether he’s beckoning higher blessings or asking forgiveness for future transgressions. In a year heavy with big statements in recorded hip hop music — including .Paak’s solo Malibu — NxWorries come in at the back end with an LP worthy of its 2016 contemporaries and then some. 8.5/10 Trial Track: “Best One” (Darcy MacDonald)

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by Darcy MacDonald

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Darcy MacDonald has been with Cult MTL since day one, a decade ago. Which means today, he’s a middle-aged white guy (albeit one more interested in other people’s ideas than in his own). He was previously a columnist and reporter for Montreal Mirror, and has also created content (FKA “written”) for RBMA, Noisey, Montreal Gazette, The National Post and probably some other great places he’s forgotten about. Music, culture, community and miscellaneous questions in search of answers all come across his desk, sooner or later.