Human by Rag'N'Bone Man

Human, the debut album from Rag'n'Bone Man, arrived on Columbia on 10 February 2017, riding in on the title track, the single that had made Rory Graham's name the year before. That song is the whole pitch in miniature: a stomping, bluesy soul groove and that huge, gravel-and-honey baritone out front, sounding like it's been hauled up from somewhere very deep.

Britain couldn't get enough. The album went straight to number one in the UK with 117,000 sales, the fastest-selling debut by a male artist of the decade, and it has since gone 4× Platinum. At the 2017 Brit Awards he was named British Breakthrough Act and took the Critics' Choice Award, and the title track won Best British Single the following year.

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