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This ninth studio album from the soulful rocker is the follow-up to 2008's It Is Time for a Love Revolution. His long-awaited "funk" album, which has been in the works for more than seven years, it sees him digging deep into the '60s and '70s to produce a work that is undeniably funky while also incorporating elements of bubblegum pop and his trademark old-school hard rock guitar sound. Producing and playing almost all of the instruments on the album himself, Kravitz has given it a warm, retro analog feel.For his ninth album, Lenny Kravitz found much of his inspiration close to home. In fact, the very spirit of Black and White America came from the locations in which the music was made from a tiny, 400-person community in the Bahamas to the streets of Paris. And out of his experiences as a true citizen of the planet, his first new songs in three years became the most personal and diverse collection of his career. "No doubt, my environment definitely lends a lot to the creative process," he says.Black and White America was written in reaction to a documentary Kravitz saw about racism in the post-Obama United States. Amidst the defiant lyrics, the songwriter references his own family history, and the experiences of his parents as an interracial couple in the 1960s. Though the sonic emphasis of Black and White America may land squarely on the funk, the force behind such guitar-driven smashes as "Fly Away" and "Are You Gonna Go My Way" hasn't turned his back on rock. Songs like "Rock Star City Life," and the first single, "Stand," give the album a healthy dose of crunching riffs.The overwhelming emotion on Black and White America is the feel of optimism, faith and hope.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Black and White America 4:35
2 Come on Get It 4:26
3 In the Black 3:25
4 Liquid Jesus 3:28
5 Rock Star City Life 3:24
6 Boongie Drop 3:49
7 Stand 3:19
8 Superlove 3:29
9 Everything 3:40
10 I Can't Be Without You 4:49
11 Looking back on Love 5:36
12 Life Ain't Ever Been Better Than It Is Now 4:17
13 The Faith of a Child 4:05
14 Sunflower 4:15
15 Dream Bonus Track 5:11
16 Push Bonus Track 4:23
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