Album review: Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate

4/5

In a remarkably forthcoming interview with the Irish Examiner earlier this year, Michael Kiwanuka spoke about the crisis of confidence that informed his second album.

“I’ve been marketed as a black soul singer, which is perhaps what I am,” he said. “But I don’t feel like that. In my head, where I grew up, I was more used to middle-class white England. That’s what I’ve been around all my life.”