| White Men Are Black Men Too | |
| Type: | studio album |
| Artist: | Young Fathers |
| Cover: | White Men Are Black Men Too album cover.png |
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| Label: | Big Dada |
| Prev Title: | Dead |
| Prev Year: | 2014 |
| Next Title: | Cocoa Sugar |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
White Men Are Black Men Too is the second studio album by Scottish indie group Young Fathers. It was released on Big Dada on 6 April 2015. It peaked at number 41 on the UK Albums Chart.
White Men Are Black Men Too received critical acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 83, based on 21 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Andy Gill of The Independent felt that the album "has less to do, musically, with traditional American hip-hop than it does with a European indie sensibility grounded in krautrock, electropop and avant-rock." Lanre Bakare of The Guardian commented that "[Young Fathers] manage the rare feat of melding pop and politics into a potent mix, and continue a tradition – begun by the likes of Smith & Mighty, Tricky and Massive Attack – of reinterpreting pop, hip-hop and soul through the filter of black British life." Writing for Exclaim!, Kyle Mullin called the record "a perfect storm of influences and talent."[3] Jamie Milton of DIY gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "Young Fathers' most fearless release yet."[4] Pitchfork gave it a 6.8.[5]
| Publication | Accolade | Year | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Guardian | The Best Albums of 2015 | 2015 | ||
| NME | NME'S Albums of the Year 2015 | 2015 | ||