Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 30 March 2010
ERYKAH BADU HERSELF has explained that if Return of the Ankh and its predecessor, 2008's sublime New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War), were two halves of a human brain, then this sequel would be the right-hand side, the emotional half. It's an analogy that holds water: Return of the Ankh is a more meditative, less-explicitly-political set, eschewing the harder-edged future-funk of Fourth World War tracks like 'The Cell' and 'Twinkle'.
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