Not Waving, But Drowning (studio album)
by Loyle Carner

Not Waving, But Drowning by Loyle Carner
Year: 2019
Release date: 2019-04-19
Overall rank: 18,498th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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73/100 (from 27 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2019 (339th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (4,011th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,498th)

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Loyle Carner bestography

Not Waving, But Drowning is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by Loyle Carner on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Loyle Carner is Yesterday's Gone which is ranked number 6790 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 188.

Loyle Carner album bestography « Higher ranked (10,780th)
Hugo
This album (18,498th)
Not Waving, But Drowning
Lower ranked (55,563rd) »
Hopefully !

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73/100 (from 27 votes)
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For me, an improvement on the debut. A very well produced follow up. His schtick is fairly unique. Coming over as a nice guy on tracks of everyday life. No guns, bitches or gang shite. More real than the rappers who are keeping it real. For the 99% that is. Not cool I guess. I feel slight influences from Stormzy and Michael Kiwanuka. Maybe not, I'm old, what do I know? Maybe he's courting the oldies by referencing Ghostface and Roots Manuva. I look forward to seeing a gig after this virus shit with a nice cone.
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