Ian Brown Essentials

Ian Brown Essentials

As the frontman for Madchester legends The Stone Roses, Ian Brown showed how psychedelic pop and rave rhythms offered parallel paths to spiritual transcendence. As a solo artist, he's continued to crosswire hazy-headed melodies with modern club sounds, evolving beyond the post-Roses electro-funk of 1999's “Love Like a Fountain” to arrive at the Rihanna-inspired R&B of 2009's “Stellify”. But Brown's perma-chill voice can belie the acidic rhetoric of his words. After a 10-year layoff (during which the Roses reunited), Brown returned in 2019 with “First World Problems”, updating the classic Madchester sound to speak to our current condition.

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