SON LITTLE
Like Neptune (Anti-)
Associate of The Roots, award-winning musician and Philadelphia-based producer, Aaron Livingston aka Son Little spent one of many lockdowns going through old childhood journals he had penned. Detailed within one of them was an incident of traumatic abuse that he suffered.
This led to Livingstone committing himself to therapy sessions to help him heal. As a result, Like Neptune is the sound of an artist seeking – and on his way to finding – inner peace.
Seeped in spiritual blues and powerfully uplifting R&B, Like Neptune is an extremely emotive listen from the drop, with the soulful groove of opener Drummer right through to the slow-burning, hip-hop beat-driven finale What’s Good. An album very much in the same league as Livingston’s previous, Grammy-winning collaborative work with soul legend Mavis Staples.
words DAVID NOBAKHT
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