Part new “daisy age” flower child, part hard-hitting urban seer, 19-year-old Atlanta dweller Raury can do it all – rap, sing, play guitar and mix genres like Kanye West, an obvious forebear. On his TV debut on Stephen Colbert’s show last month, Raury wore a Mexico T-shirt to taunt fellow guest and Hispanophobe Donald Trump. This debut album proper follows last year’s celebrated Indigo Child mixtape and feels slightly anticlimactic. The prevailing vibe has less of Raury’s headline righteous tension (typical tune: Devil’s Whisper) and more of his dreamy troubadouring (the title nods to the Beatles). He is all messed up about a girl on Love Is Not a Four Letter Word and the keyboard fantasia of Her; songs about the planet and his mother also figure.
