Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home with some vocals recorded in her bathroom
Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and
experimentally techy . Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lofi and highly
sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy. It begins with a radio signal tuning
in and it asks its listener to participate in their own process of attunement to listen to
familiar sounds anew and open ourselves to an alternate Amerykah. An organism at once cohesive
and discordant it flows jams grooves bounces. It transforms. Placing Badu in an
intertextual constellation of artists and critics from Stevie Wonder to Amiri Baraka to Alice
Coltrane Kameryn Alexa Carter explores whether neo-soul is dead acknowledges Baduizm as a
potent form of Black female spirituality and tunes into Badu's "freakquencies" taking the
reader through a series of synesthetic dream sequences as she revisits the album again and
again.
