David Anthony - As Above So Below (Bonus Track Version) (2011)

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Title: As Above So Below (Bonus Track Version)
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Dome Records Ltd
Genre: Soul, R&B, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
Total Time: 00:51:48
Total Size: 321 mb
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Tracklist

01. As Above So Below
02. Let Me In
03. 4Evermore
04. Reach Ya
05. What God Said
06. Rule the World
07. Girlfriend
08. Keep You Around
09. Get Around
10. Body Language
11. As Above So Below (Outro)
12. Backstreet
13. Find Your Love (Bonus Track)

Neo-soul singer/songwriter Anthony David's As Above So Below is his third studio album, following 2004's Three Chords & the Truth and 2006's The Red Clay Chronicles (and not including 2008's Acey Duecy, a major-label compilation drawn from those two, and The Setup, a live EP released earlier in 2011). It's a curious combination of romantic and political material, all set to the quiet, steady beats and acoustic rhythm guitar of the singer's chosen style. On the one hand, David is very much concerned with politics. On "Reach Ya," he weighs in on the health care debate, making this probably one of the few songs to use the phrase "pre-existing condition." "God Said" finds the singer speaking in the voice of a religious zealot whose "imaginary friend" tells him how to behave. And he wraps up this mini-set of social issues with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." His authority as a moral arbiter might be strengthened if his romantic songs were not so concerned with his own infidelity. In "Girlfriend," he unconvincingly puts off other women by mechanically repeating that he has a girlfriend, while "Get Around" is addressed to that girlfriend, to whom he explains that he just isn't the faithful type. He returns to social matters most forcefully at the end with the "ghetto epic" "Backstreet," a cautionary tale of guns and drugs in which the narrator, intent upon murdering a rival, gets the tables turned on him and finds himself singing from beyond the grave. All of this reinforces the title, As Above So Below, which turns out to be an ambitious album that will give listeners quite a few things to think about as they groove with the beats.