Review: On ‘Twice as Tall’, Burna Boy bends Afrobeats to his will

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Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, TwiceAsTall, extends beyond the hype to reveal the Afrobeats star’s vulnerability.

. These stadium jams, although not predominant, are not jarringly at odds with the sparse polyrhythms more commonplace in Afrobeats, found in songs such asis not unchecked expansionism. There is still a sense that Burna Boy has a core constituency with whom common ground is still important. This sentiment is strong on songs such asUltimately, Burna Boy’s politics, though, remain difficult to pinpoint. What the lockdown reflections reveal is a man whose musing stem from an earnest place.

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