Album review: LKT’s ‘The Journey’ is quite noisy… and boring too

by Wilfred Okiche

LKT-Album

LKT found mainstream fame when he collaborated with Olu Maintain for ‘Yahooze, that relentless party  popper that had former U.S Secretary of state Colin Powell dancing along. Post-Yahooze, he worked with everyone fom eLDee to P-Square before putting out his own album.

‘The Journey’ isn’t much. Well, it is much in terms of quantity. At 20 songs long, much of them similar sounding club hopping material, LKT quickly wears out the most patient of listeners.

Sure he fills the landscape with guest appearances by everyone from P-Square to 9ice, Davido to Olamide  but the end result is still an extended bore. The twins of P-Square have never been known to sound great on a guest appearance and so they just chop and slice a bunch of their past hits on ‘Follow follow’. ‘Just like yesterday’ sounds like it failed to make the cut for 9ices ‘Versus’ album. Davido is undistinguished, beating his chest and reminding us of his omo baba olowo status (not that we ever forgot) on ‘Alaye remix and Olamide huffs and puffs to no engaging effect on ‘Woni were’.

There is a hint of excitement to be gleaned though on ‘Asiko’ the up tempo opening single and the sing along chorus of ‘Bamifa might work for some.’ ‘Iwonikan’ is one of the disc’s better experiences and ‘Omo lomo yen’ has a pleasing high life feel.

‘The Journey’ doesn’t do much for LKT. While his efforts at doing pop music in his indigenous language are commendable, the album falls short, repeatedly sounding like early-career 9ice. There is a distinct lack of the wit or energy that has made the likes of Olamide and Reminisce major crossover stars and the audience comes out of the experience feeling mildly frustrated. Hopefully, this one is just a primer for better material in the future.

 

– The writer tweets from @drwill20

One comment

  1. Mr wilfred okiche, Is this what you called an album review?

    Well, may be, You didn't comprehense it to meet my understanding. I will advice you to go and listen to the album once again. Am a fan of lkt, I download all his songs as early as they hitz online. The Journey Album is one of the best album produced in 2013.

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