So, just sit down. PLEASE HAVE A SEAT challenges Nnamdï Ogobonnaya with his fourth album so he can show us what he’s got. And that’s not a small thing, because this music-obsessed one-man band effortlessly and without being annoying manages to carve 23 different genres into one song. The opener “Ready To Run”, a neo-soul piece of the highest intimacy enchanted in witch house, leads on the wrong track at first.
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Because what follows first are four song vignettes, sometimes indie pop, sometimes rap, sometimes smoother R’n’B, sometimes prog rock, which delight us with a surprise within their two-minute limits. Be it with a new melody, a cracked jingle or beautiful vocal harmonies. And then the Nnamdï show really takes off. For example with “Anxious Eater”, which changes direction eight times between Black-Midi-like gniedelguitar full alarm and auto-tune soul.
When it threatens to get too cerebral, an irresistible hook spurts out of his fountain of ideas. Only to then rotate the song 360 degrees. Everything was written, played, sung and produced by himself – except for “Dedication”, on which he employs a few guest singers. Are these academically constructed compositions? Or indie soul songs for the gifted? A bit of both, Nnamdï is a virtuoso confounder, helping himself to ingredients from a supermarket. Possibly his most important: humor. Luckily he never loses it on PLEASE HAVE A SEAT.
Author: Michael Prenner
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