Kindness.

thought the debut was big studio stuff and lots of major label £££.

hence why the second album was self released and disappeared.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/world-you-need-a-change-of-mind-mw0002293927/credits

Oh wow! Ok that makes more sense. Never cared to check the credits. Now I'm dissapointed in him but Erol Alkan gets more points.

This probably deserves another thread but how come bedroom musicians very rarely do the mastering in their albums?

Take Panda Bear's Person Pitch per example. I love that one and Noah did pretty much everything except the artwork and the mastering.

I could have sworn I read Kindness' debut was made by him in his bedroom. Now I'm sad that it's apparently impossible or very difficult to get that sound without a proper studio. Any recommendations of bedroom albums that make studio albums take a run for their money?

At least Lorde did made Royals all by herself in her room, right?

bedroom albums = a whole different thread.
how do you distinguish between an album actually made in a bedroom, and an album made elsewhere but on a laptop which could effectively be in the bedroom, kitchen, toilet etc ?

it's a good idea for a thread; bedroom albums. or very cheaply made albums. i never knew until watching one of those 'Soundbreaking' docs recently but the big early Eurythmics hits (Sweet Dreams, Love Is A Stranger etc) were recorded stupidly cheaply in a loft somewhere. Annie Lennox commented that they preferred 'the Volkswagen to the Rolls Royce' when it came to recording.

i have no recollection of Kindness at all weirdly.

I really liked some of that first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abI3NHYKB_w

New album is out today, with some interesting guests: Robyn, Jazmine Sullivan, Cosima, Seinabo Sey (Kelela co-wrote the track on which she features), and Samthing Saweto of "Akanamali" fame.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3EIYi24x5X0US5vJyso0cv

I want to believe you mean Cosima Devito

i want to believe you mean people in general

Few people talking about this one. Highlights for me are the 2 Robyn tracks.

Few people talking about this one. Highlights for me are the 2 Robyn tracks.

Jazmine Sullivan track for me. Some not so great reviews around but heh some of these have soundtracked my summer.

The track with Jazmine just clicked hugely with me (I was enjoying the album generally but no one track has really jumped out, similar experience with the previous one). Maybe this is why he gets ignored on lists and in general plus although the influences are evidently diverse they're all rather obvious and he can never really at least match them, only homage in a pleasing but ultimately unremarkable way. Still deserves more love though.