My love divine degree

"The success of 2002's The Headphone Masterpiece effectively wrote soul singer Cody Chesnutt a blank cheque in terms of creative freedom. For a record to become loved by many, despite being sprawling, deeply eccentric and impossible to second-guess - that's an indication of the chops, charisma and genre-hopping virtuosity it offered.So when the follow-up, 2012's Landing On A Hundred arrived after such a long layoff and proved a very effective but pretty straightforward set steeped in 70s soul, fans would have been forgiven for thinking his rough edges may have been regrettably smoothed off. MLDD feels a bit like he's cutting loose again, following his muse wherever it takes him ... there's a lot of great, interesting stuff here but the listener will have to indulge him to get to it. If you're a fan that's no problem, the more causal listener may need convincing".

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"Coming 15 years after his breakthrough debut, the sprawling, lo-fi The Headphone Masterpiece, and five years after his sophisticated follow-up, Landing on a Hundred, My Love Divine Degree finds ChesnuTT better balancing his early lo-fi vibe with his obvious love for the classic work of artists like Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley. These are buoyant songs, even ragged at times, yet full of deeply philosophical notions and a production style that deftly straddles the line between thoughtfully honed and off the cuff".

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