8-445: Ilp. ( / ɪ l p / ) is the debut album by record producer and musician Kwes . It was released on 14 October 2013 on Warp Records . The release is a follow-up to his second EP release Meantime . The record's title ilp refers literally to the record being Kwes' first studio album. ilp. received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,
16-482: A BIFA in 2023 for Best Original Music. Kwes began playing his grandparents' organ at the age of four and his grandmother bought him his first small keyboard aged 5. For his tenth birthday, he received a radio/tape recorder with a built-in microphone , which launched his interest in sound recording. Kwes's younger brother is the musician Coby Sey . Kwes has chromesthesia (sound-to-colour synaesthesia). His earliest synaesthetic experiences occurred around
24-588: Is a British music producer, composer and artist from London , England. Kwes is also currently signed to Warp as a solo artist and released his debut album, ilp , in October 2013. He has since gone on to produce music for the likes of Damon Albarn , Bobby Womack , Solange Knowles , Sampha , Loyle Carner , Black Coffee , Nubya Garcia , Mica Levi , Tirzah , Lucy Rose and numerous others. He also composed his debut feature length score for 2023 British rom-com film Rye Lane , directed by Raine Allen-Miller . It won
32-504: Is always – yellow/green, E which is Yellow/gold, F which is violet/blue, C – Blue, A – light blue, B – yellow/gold/green." Colour is not in my direct field of vision, it's more in my peripheral field of vision, so it's just something that's always going on; it doesn't annoy me, or it doesn't amuse me, or it doesn't make me feel good, it's a normal occurrence to me. But at the same time, that could be why I love music so much. His synaesthetic impressions of his own music are translated in
40-426: Is beautiful but low key, almost conversational. It's the exact opposite of showy. The understatement seeps into the music as well. There's nothing showy or grandstanding about the way it shifts in between styles." Alan Ashton-Smith of musicOMH compliments Kwes' composition and songwriting on ilp. "The fact that he's a pop artist signed to Warp is perhaps the best way of summing up what he does: he's constantly pushing
48-406: The age of 4 and he attempted to colour paper with the particular colours he was seeing when listening to music. These colours have been set since he first discovered his condition: "any form of a G-chord would have orange in it, and the other notes which are not G accompanying that G-chord would have an effect on the type of orange it is. Majors tend to be slightly brighter. Same applies for D which
56-487: The album received an average score of 76, which indicates "generally favourable acclaim". Al Kennedy of PopMatters said that ilp. can be described as "tender, innocent and heartfelt but not twee, cheesy or overtly sentimental". Kennedy further states in that "Kwes' ilp. is to pop what Jamie Lidell's Jim was to soul". In a review for The Guardian , Alexis Petridis noted that "there's an appealing sense of understatement on ilp. , you can clearly here it in his voice, which
64-515: The envelope, but his music has a comforting, familiar – and indeed an enveloping – feel. Many of them might be unorthodox experimental pop songs, but there's something very authentic about every track here. All the effects and unexpected structures seem to be nothing but completely honest expressions of what Kwes is trying to say." All music is composed by Kwes Credits taken from Discogs . Kwes Kwes ( / k w ɛ s / ; sometimes stylised as kwes , kwes. , Kwes. or [o=o]. )
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