- jazz, jazz-funk, soul
- 32 min
- 14 tracks
- XL Recordings
Nothing New is a posthumous album of vocal & piano recordings by Gil Scott-Heron released by XL Recordings on April 19, 2014 in conjunction with Record Store Day. The album consists of new, stripped-down versions of a selection of older Scott-Heron songs stretching from 1971's "Pieces of a Man" to 1994's "The Other Side". It was recorded with producer Richard Russell between 2005 and 2009, in the same sessions that led to 2010's I'm New Here.
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Spare, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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Tracks
- 1Did You Hear What They Said4:06
- 2Better Days Ahead4:34
- 3Household Name (interlude)0:12
- 4Your Daddy Loves You4:03
- 5Changing Yourself (interlude)0:11
- 6Pieces of a Man4:32
- 7Enjoying Yourself (outro)0:19
- 8Alien (Hold on to Your Dreams)3:04
- 9Before I Hit the Bottom (interlude)0:21
- 1095 South (All the Places We’ve Been)3:10
- 11The Other Side3:03
- 12The On/Off Switch (interlude)0:26
- 13Blue Collar3:51
- 14On Bobby Blue Bland (outro)0:29
14 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Gil Scott‐Heron
- Label
- XL Recordings
- Released
- April 19, 2014
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XW
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