Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s music was never easy to pin down, but on his new album BRAT, now under the mononym NNAMDÏ, the Chicago multi-instrumentalist seems focused on confounding expectations.
BRAT, out today via Sooper, is a record about self-analysis, a real-time attempt to change for the better by picking apart personality traits one by one.
That’s a huge lyrical undertaking on its own, but only an artist with NNAMDÏ’s absurd range could change gears so quickly from one song to the next, inspecting each different emotion in turn and relaying their precise colors in detail.
On BRAT, at his most anxious, Ogbonnaya channels late-’90s and early-’00s emo bands, particularly the wide-open guitars of American Football and even the utopian indie of
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