ON LOVE CHILD THE ALBUM, ANGELOH IS REALISTIC ABOUT LOVE AS THE AUTHOR OF SONGS OF SOLOMON.

LoveChild the Album is  the musical instalment of love by all round creative Angeloh. This recurrent subject of love has witnessed expressions in four different body of works.

The fourth instalment was released strategically four days to Valentine's.

The dreamy art cover, track listing and overall art direction reflects the intentional and subverting direction the album is tilting towards in relation to the wrong propositions about love.

THE STARTER

Love Child the Album opens up with 'Jeje' which literally translates to 'take it easy' in the Yoruba dialect. 

Together with featured artist Waje, they makean unconditional love anthem, not the 'up and go' love, culture has shoved down our throats.

This is love that ‘goes again’ regardless of tumultuous occurrences. 

The lead single of the album 'Shugah' with Greatman Takit musically is a lot of guitar riffs and the traditional talking drum for even added flare.

Angeloh opens up from the POV of an expectant groom and when he sings: 'I no fit deny, I go like make father finish, make I take you home tonight.' The lyrics are honest and blatant. What love should be - unashamed, not hushed up.

Greatman Takit leans towards his Ejike persona and infuses humour to deliver his observation of love which is a lot of sacrifice for me.

Arguably the most intense love song by a gospel artiste is the third song on the album ‘Baby’

The first eleven seconds have elements of Jazz. It’s like watching a movie where the lead actor walks into a Jazz club, goes to the bar, orders a drink and in between sips, he sees someone on the stage who piques his interest and he is seated there transfixed.

Tobi Toun with the best guest verse on the album and when he raps: ‘I’m trying to love you all night/ trying to give my baby a baby and be my baby’s baby, for everyone is a baby in the lord's eye's/ vacay seaside, how many babies – you decide!’  It almost feels like it’s an album put together by a non faith-based artist. But no, it is just someone who's aware of God's position on romance. 

Korale and Gaise Baba are enlisted for ‘Something good’; the album fourth track, and sophomore lead single of the project. 

It’s the perfect traditional wedding song. From the lenses of an inter tribal marriage between a Yoruba and Igbo couple.

It is a 'show off' song for Men who are willing to give their all to their Women. 

The only misgivings on the track was the Gaise Baba verse. Artistry wise, he was one of the best choices to have had a verse on this song, but the delivered verse just left a draggy essence to it.

'Feels good' is such a good song that has a tropical vibe to it. The songwriting is as cogent as it can be.

‘Feels good’ is the perfect honeymoon get-away song. It is movie sound design  material too. Two couples wearing white or matching alternatives, strolling down a beach, basking in the euphoria that being newly wed offers. Naffyamar soothing vocals provide a balanced perspective to it.

‘For you’ is the only song for Angeloh, there are no guest verses.

He swatches the themes of fidelity and contentment. It is a song that trumps the idea of self gratification. Basically, a representation of how Christ would love the Church and how love must be founded on deeper rooted values, than just the flimsy fluttering of the proverbial ‘butterfly in the belly’

The album closer ‘Thank God for you’ sounds like the deluxe of the previous track.

Subtle delivery with an instrumental foundation of electric guitars. 

UK rapper Still Shadey is enlisted on this track and together with Angeloh they express the undeniable effect romantic relationships has on a couples life.

But the intent is a little foggy, not in songwriting, but in the sequencing. 

Perhaps the arrangement of the sequence of the two closing songs on the album could have been better. 

‘Thank God For You’ wasn’t a bad choice for an album closer, but it could have been either replaced with a different song, or the direction of the preceding song ‘For you' could have been slightly distinct. 

But the best option would have been to have a thematic conjunction between both songs.

THE FINAL LAP

The greatest win on this project would undoubtedly be the stellar production.

For a long time, Love has become a generic subject matter among young Christians. It is certain to get conversations buzzing when it is mentioned. 

The idea behind this project amongst others was to offer a new reality, not the one Nollywood and Afrobeats has offered for a long time. 

Angeloh has consistently hinged on the benchmark of love that is expressive. For many times, Love in the Christian space has tilted towards the relationship of the one who created love, and leaving little or nothing for the ones who it was created for.

On Lovechild the Album, Angeloh practised something very important called ‘Artistic restraint’; This album wasn’t made solely for the demography of married couples, but young Christians going through their waiting periods, so it was important for it to be expressive but not also ‘awaken passions before time’ at the same time. 

For example, an intense track like ‘Baby’ didn’t get to be more than one, or be the overall theme of the album.

This consistent restraint trickled down to the discreet conservation in his visuals and overall promotion. 

Also, song writing on the album most times refused to rely on materialism as a benchmark for expressing love, something the music space has exasperatingly offered to its consumers. 

Angeloh with the Lovechild series is teaching people to be bold, honest, realistic and vulnerable about this emotion called Love while juggling the principles of God's word on the other hand. 

This Lovechild would birth Adults capable of loving right.

Listen to the Album here.

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