Let Love

pitchfork

Common’s latest is a loungy meditation on love and its many forms. It is at turns hopeful and naive.

exclaim

Sonically, the album is a time capsule of the greatest moments in black music history. Lyrically, it's hard-hitting reality about the present day, the good, the bad and the horrific — but it's also a captivating tale about using love as a weapon to overcome, as well as the reality that sometimes love also fails, whether it be romantic, platonic or social.