Love & Hate (Michael Kiwanuka album)

Love & Hate
Studio album by Michael Kiwanuka
Released	15 July 2016 (2016-07-15)
Studio	The Sound Factory (Los Angeles) Metropolis Studios (London) Miloco Studios (London) Chale Abbey (Isle of Wight) Panoramic Studios (Los Angeles) Seahorse Studios (Los Angeles) RAK Studios (London)
Genre	Indie rock folk rock
Length	52:49
Label	Polydor (UK) Interscope (US)
Producer	Danger Mouse Inflo Paul Butler
Michael Kiwanuka chronology
You've Got Nothing to Lose (2014) Love & Hate (2016) Kiwanuka (2019)
Michael Kiwanuka studio album chronology
Home Again (2012) Love & Hate (2016) Kiwanuka (2019)
Singles from Love & Hate
"Black Man in a White World" Released: 28 March 2016 "Love & Hate" Released: 7 April 2016 "One More Night" Released: 14 April 2016 "Cold Little Heart" Released: 24 February 2017

Love & Hate is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. The album was released on 15 July 2016 by Polydor Records (UK) and Interscope Records (US).

Background

The album is the follow-up record to Kiwanuka's 2012 Mercury Prize-nominated album Home Again. The album was produced by Danger Mouse, Inflo, and Paul Butler. Love & Hate also released three singles. The first single, "Black Man in a White World" was released on 28 March 2016, and was accompanied by a video directed by Hiro Murai. The second single, "Love & Hate", was released on 7 April 2016.

Usage in media

The song Cold Little Heart is also known for being the opening theme of the HBO television series Big Little Lies.^[1]

The song "Love & Hate" featured in various shows and films, including the series finale of the Netflix drama Seven Seconds, the Netflix docudrama When They See Us, the legal drama Suits (season 7, episode 8), Rosewood (season 1, episode 22),^[2] Animal Kingdom (season 3, episode 11), Dear White People (season 1, episode 5)^[3] and the movie The Tax Collector. In 2019, it was used in the italian My Brother Chases Dinosaurs and in 2021, it was again used in an Italian production, Speravo de morì prima [it] (episode 2, final scene and credits), based in the final season of footballer Francesco Totti at AS Roma.

The song "Black Man in a White World" is performed by John Clarence Stewart, in character as Simon Haynes, in "Zoey's Extraordinary Reckoning", the sixth episode of the second season of the musical comedy-drama series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.^[4]

The song "Rule the World" was featured in the Netflix series The Get Down and the HBO Max original series Hacks.^[5][6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.1/10[7]
Metacritic	86/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The A.V. Club	A[10]
Chicago Tribune	[11]
The Daily Telegraph	[12]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[13]
The Guardian	[14]
NME	4/5[15]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[16]
Q	[17]
The Times	[18]

Upon its release, Love & Hate received widespread critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 86, based on 23 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[8] The Telegraph said "This is an album that sounds like a world of music in itself",^[12] while The Guardian called the album "the work of an artist coming into his own".^[14] Writing for Exclaim!, Ryan B. Patrick lauded Kiwanuka's "introspective study of himself and his standing in a post-millennial world".^[19]

Accolades for Love & Hate

Publication	Accolade	Year	Rank
American Songwriter	Top 50 Albums of 2016	2016	2[20]
Banquet Records	Albums of the Year	2016	1[21]
BBC Radio 6	Albums of the Year	2016	4[22]
Chicago Tribune	Top Albums of 2016	2016	4[23]
GQ	10 Best Albums of 2016	2016	7[24]
The Guardian	The Best Albums of 2016	2016	27[25]
Les Inrockuptibles	50 Best Albums of 2016	2016	16[26]
Mojo	The 50 Best Albums of 2016	2016	2[27]
NME	NME's Albums of the Year 2016	2016	23[28]
Rough Trade	Albums of the Year	2016	17[29]

Track listing

Love & Hate track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cold Little Heart"	Michael Kiwanuka Brian Burton Dean Josiah Cover	9:57
2.	"Black Man in a White World"	Kiwanuka Cover	4:18
3.	"Falling"	Kiwanuka Burton	4:16
4.	"Place I Belong"	Kiwanuka	4:47
5.	"Love & Hate"	Kiwanuka Burton Cover	7:07
6.	"One More Night"	Kiwanuka	3:53
7.	"I'll Never Love"	Kiwanuka	2:45
8.	"Rule the World"	Kiwanuka Burton Cover	5:42
9.	"Father's Child"	Kiwanuka Burton Cover	7:05
10.	"The Final Frame"	Kiwanuka Burton Cover	4:59
Total length:			52:49

Personnel

Adapted from the Love & Hate booklet.^[30][31]

Performers and musicians Michael Kiwanuka – vocals (all tracks); electric guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8); lead guitar (1, 3, 5, 8); acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5); guitar (2, 9, 10); bass (2, 3, 8, 10); piano (4, 9); backing vocals (5) Inflo – piano (1, 2, 5, 9, 10); drums (1, 5, 8–10); bass (5, 9); backing vocals (4, 5) Brian Burton – bass (1, 5); percussion (1, 3); synth pad (1); piano (3); organ (3, 5) Graham Godfrey – drums (2, 4, 7); percussion (2, 4, 5, 9); hand claps (2); backing vocals, (6); tape machine FX (7) Paul Butler – percussion (4, 6, 7); cello and trumpet (4); electric guitar, keys, drum machines and backing vocals (6); clavinet, Moog, piano and Yamaha CS-80 (7) Andy Parkin – violin (4) Miles James – electric guitar (4) Pete Randall – double bass (4); Fender bass VI (6, 7); backing vocals (4, 6, 7) Gary Plumley – flute (4); saxophone (4, 6) James Bateman – saxophone (6) Paul Boldeau, Phebe Edwards, LaDonna Harley-Peters – backing vocals (1–3, 5, 8, 9) Wired Strings (1–3, 5, 8–10) Jenny Sacha – violin (1–3, 5) Gillon Cameron, Anna Croad, Sally Jackson, Patrick Kieman, Eleanor Mathieson, Kotono Sato, Debbie Widdup – violin (1, 5) Natalia Bonner – violin (2) Kerenza Peacock – violin (3) Emma Owens – viola (1, 2, 5) Nzomi Cohen – viola (1, 5) Becky Jones – viola (3) Rosie Danvers – cello (1–3, 5); string arrangements (1–3, 8–10) Bryony James – cello (1, 5) Richard Pryce – double bass (1, 5) Huw White – string arrangements (5)

Technical Brian Burton (as Danger Mouse) – production (1, 3, 5, 7–10); vocal production (4) Inflo – production (1–3, 5, 8–10); strings production (3, 8, 9) Paul Butler – production, engineering and mixing (4, 6, 7); vocal production (4) Kennie Takahashi – engineering (all tracks, exc. 2, 6); mixing (3, 7, 8, 10) Richard Woodcraft – engineering (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9); strings engineering; mixing (all tracks, exc. 3, 7) Todd Monfalcone – engineering (1, 3–5, 7, 8, 10); mixing assistant (3, 7, 8, 10) Dave Granshaw – engineering (4, 6, 7) Jon McMullen – engineering (6, 7); mix engineering (4) Samur Khouja – engineering (7) Guy Davie – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2016) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[32] 35 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[33] 11 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[34] 9 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[35] 26 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[36] 8 French Albums (SNEP)[37] 5 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[38] 6 Irish Albums (IRMA)[39] 15 New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[40] 4 Scottish Albums (OCC)[41] 4 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[42] 4 UK Albums (OCC)[43] 1 US Billboard 200[44] 170

Year-end charts Chart (2016) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[45] 108 Chart (2020) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[46] 177

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[47]	Platinum	20,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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External links

• Kiwanuka's homepage