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Third album from the ever-excellent Loyle Carner.
In hugo, there’s a central question that Loyle Carner keeps coming back to: “I’m young, Black, successful and have a platform - but where do I go next?” The answer is explored in this epic scream of a third album. With urgent delivery and gloriously widescreen production, Carner confronts both the deeply personal (“You can’t hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. So how can I hate my father without hating me?) and the highly political (“I told the black man he didn’t understand I reached the white man he wouldn’t take my hand”). Cinematic in scale and scope, hugo is both a rallying war cry for a generation forged in fire and a study of the personal internal conflict that drives the rest of the album - as a mixed-race Black man, as an artist, as a father and as a son... hugo sees Carner taking a sharp detour from his previous work, putting it down to lockdown and the “hedonistic side of career being stripped away. There were no shows, no backstage, no festivals, no photoshoots”. By continuing to write in these tumultuous times with a renewed clarity and sense of artistic freedom, Carner reached deeper beneath the surface than he ever had before. The result is his most cathartic and ambitious record yet, a coruscating journey into the heart of what it means to be alive in these tumultuous times, and one which looks set to neatly cement his position as one of the most potent and vital young talents around today.
4 LP Boxset:
• 1x Toolbox
• 1x Chess Board with Custom chess pieces (Made by Sunny)
• 1x Incense (Made by Cremate)
• 1x Incense Burner
• 1x hugo car key with keychain
• 1x Pin Badge
• 1x Certificate of authenticity
• 1x Notebook
• 1x hugo Process Book
• 1x Georgetown Flexidisc
• 1x Plastic Flexidisc
• 1x hugo: reimagined (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) Vinyl LP
• 1x hugo Picture Disc Vinyl LP
• 1x Hidden Message
Loyle Carner’s here and he’s brought his mum! pic.twitter.com/lZVpiOLqmp
— Banquet Records (@BanquetRecords) April 24, 2019
Loyle at our shop in 2019
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Item code: EMICD2068
Label: emi
Info correct on: 11/3/2025