4/5 maybe it's the singer-producer disconnect of the original that makes I'm New Here such tempting fodder for remaking. Richard Russel took Scott-Heron's contributions in such a strange direction, what others might be possible?
Contrast with the ouroboran influences that lead to Jamie xx's dilution of I'm New Here's best qualities - McCraven's take sounds more like what the original album could have been; it seems very safe to say _should have been. Jazzy, weird, and fucking __immediate, and critically keeping the bookending monologues intact, making them even more impactful by weaving them into the album's essence. Unpredictable, alive, live, paced to float and sting and gloat at the center of the ring, before succumbing to drink. Weathered, weary, bracingly vulnerable, but still dangerous
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