Name: hugo
Brand: Loyle Carner

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EMIVY2068

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Colour

orange

Colour details

Neon Orange

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180 gm LP, gatefold, poster 24 x 36 inches, sticker, inner sleeve w/ dye cut, semi-circular holes

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0602445610044

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / orange

EMIV2068

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black

Extended format: No

0602445609932

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

EMICD2068

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Standard CD, mintpack, 16-page booklet, sticker.

0602445609994

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Loyle Carner

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

In <i>hugo</i>, there’s a central question that Loyle Carner keeps coming back to: “I’m young, Black, successful and have a platform - but where do I go next?” The answer is explored in this epic scream of a third album. With urgent delivery and gloriously widescreen production, Carner confronts both the deeply personal (“You can’t hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. So how can I hate my father without hating me?) and the highly political (“I told the black man he didn’t understand I reached the white man he wouldn’t take my hand”). 

By continuing to write in these tumultuous times with a renewed clarity and sense of artistic freedom, Carner reached deeper beneath the surface than he ever had before. The result is his most cathartic and ambitious record yet, a coruscating journey into the heart of what it means to be alive in these tumultuous times, and one which looks set to neatly cement his position as one of the most potent and vital young talents around today. Working alongside renowned producer kwes. (Solange, Kelela, Nao), Carner leaves no stone unturned on this album, in both its sound and its stories. 

In a 10-track album that moves from gorgeous neo-soul moments to thundering hip hop, with immediate, infectious bangers and sampled interludes from non musicians (mixed-race Guyanese poet John Agard and youth activist and politician Athian Akec) Carner shifts seamlessly from micro to macro, confronting everything from strained relationships with family to the societal tears caused by class stratification. It also lays bare bruises in his personal life that he has never revealed before – often in painful, deeply uncomfortable ways, focusing on Carner's experience of becoming a father in the context of growing up without contact with his biological father. Cognizant of the immense pain and fear and confusion that we are faced with everyday, Carner has thrown down the gauntlet, defying us not to rise above the fray, wake up each day and be ambitious. Ambitious in building strong personal relationships. Ambitious in our pursuit of our goals. Ambitious in never refusing to back down against injustice. Rejecting the title of leader, Loyle Carner sees himself “as holding up a mirror”, and that clearly translates into the album's universal messages.

hugo

Music GB