Ventura

AlbumApr 12 / 201911 songs, 39m 41s
Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B Funk
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6.9 / 10

After the hard left turn of Oxnard, Paak sinks back into the bubbly smooth grooves that got him noticed.

7 / 10

9 / 10

Hot on the heels of the interesting but flawed Oxnard, this is a great leap forward for the California rapper

The Chemical Brothers - No Geography

The California soulman-MC ponders grown-up love on the companion to last year’s “Oxnard”

The album borrows heavily from the singer’s consistently brilliant 2016 record ‘Malibu’, itself a fresh slice of soulful funk

Paak won a Best Rap Performance Grammy award for "Bubblin" and returned in April with Ventura, at which point his preceding Oxnard wasn't even six months old.

7 / 10

From Venice to Ventura, what you see (and hear) is what you get with Anderson .Paak. Such is the life of a genre-straddler in the modern mus...

The album was met with critiques of lack-lustre impressions and dissatisfied fans, leading to whispers that the quick turnaround of his brand-new record Ventura was to shift the focus away from its bad publicity.

7.5 / 10

Hot on the heels off Malibu and Oxnard, comes Ventura the third in California-native Anderson .Paak's trilogy.

8 / 10

It's only been five months since Anderson .Paak released his major label debut 'Oxnard' and, despite some commercial success, the album

(Aftermath)

The album serves as a reminder of the magic that can result from looking to the past to inform the future.

The rapper’s new album feels like a riposte to criticism of his last one, amping up the subtlety and dialling down the grand ambition

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Anderson .Paak - Ventura review: can't a young man dream? can't we all live the life on a widescreen?