Song · Michael Kiwanuka
“Love and Hate” by Michael Kiwanuka
From the album Love & Hate (2016)
“Love and Hate” by Michael Kiwanuka appears on 15 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2016 and 2026. It was first released in 2016 on the album Love & Hate. Its best result is #3 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #37 indie & aaa song of 2017, #836 indie & aaa song of all time and #127 of the '10s.
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The title track of Michael Kiwanuka's 2016 album Love & Hate, "Love and Hate" came out in late May of that year, written by Kiwanuka with Inflo and Brian Burton and produced by Inflo and Danger Mouse. It's a slow-burning soul epic that takes its time and earns it: Kiwanuka's electric and acoustic guitars circle a groove laid down by Inflo on drums, piano and bass, with Burton's organ glowing underneath and Richard Pryce's double bass and Graham Godfrey's percussion deepening the floor.
Then come the big guns: a full string section from Wired Strings, Rosie Danvers among the cellists, and a gospel-tinged wall of backing voices, Paul Boldeau, Phebe Edwards and Ladonna Harley-Peters alongside Inflo and Kiwanuka himself. Richard Woodcraft engineered the strings and mixed the lot, and the song swells like a storm rolling in off the hills.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016 | 90 |
| 2016 | 48 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016 | 107 |
| 2016 | 78 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 | 101 |
| 2016 | 30 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016 | 104 |
| 2017 | 41 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 20 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2017 | 24 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 20 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 288 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 288 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 457 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 673 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 324 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 296 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 140 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
Also listed as: Love & Hate.
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