Sons Of KemetBest Sons Of Kemet Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
13
Opinions
3
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 13 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Sons Of Kemet's catalog across 3 albums from 13 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Sons Of Kemet album is Your Queen Is A Reptile (2018) with a 8.4/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Black To The Future. The discography on Wavelength spans 2018 to 2021. My Queen Is Harriet Tubman ranks as the highest-rated Sons Of Kemet song on Wavelength with a 9.0/10 average.
Black To The Future
“Shabaka Hutchings is one step ahead – always. The saxophonist last released a record, his other band Shabaka and The Ancestors’ ‘We Are Sent Here By History’, in mid-March last year. This was the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic tearing through the United Kingdom; the album centred around themes of confronting the destruction of humanity. ‘Black to The Future’, Hutchings’ latest record, this time with”
Your Queen Is A Reptile
“Sons of Kemet make jazz for the 21st century”
Black To The Future
“Sons of Kemet prove themselves leaders of London jazz with Black To The Future”
Black To The Future
““My revolution rides a black horse, and it is stunning!” exclaims guest poet Joshua Idehen barely 2 minutes into Black to the Future. “We are rolling your monuments down the street like tobacco, tossing your effigies into the river,” he continues, indignantly, over tumbling drum fills and squalls of sax, and the effect is a combined sense of unease, resistance, desperation and celebration of Black”
Your Queen Is A Reptile
“Your Queen Is a Reptile should go down as one of the most exhilarating and revolutionary jazz records of 2018.”
Your Queen Is A Reptile
“On this London group’s first LP for Impulse!, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings uses jazz’s cultural memory as a rich language that informs an entirely new conversation.”
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