Small Changes by Michael Kiwanuka

Small Changes, Michael Kiwanuka's fourth album, arrived on Polydor and Interscope on 22 November 2024, and the title works as a fair warning: this is a record of fine adjustments, not reinvention. For the third time running he worked with Danger Mouse and Inflo, the production pair behind his previous two records, and the partnership has settled into something unhurried and lived-in, a sound that takes its time and trusts the listener to lean in.

He trailed it with three singles, "Floating Parade", the two-part "Lowdown (Part I) / Lowdown (Part II)" and "The Rest of Me", and the critics came around almost to a person. It's a calm follow-through from a singer who had already gone gold with his 2012 debut Home Again, topped the charts with Love & Hate in 2016 and taken the Mercury Prize in 2020, and it plays like a man with nothing left to prove.

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