Love & Hate (Michael Kiwanuka album)

Love & Hate is the second studio album by London-based singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. The album was released on 15 July 2016 by Polydor Records (UK) and Interscope Records (US).

Background
The album is the follow-up record to Kiwanuka's 2012 Mercury Prize-nominated album Home Again. The album was produced by Danger Mouse, Inflo, and Paul Butler. Love & Hate also released three singles. The first single, "Black Man in a White World" was released on 28 March 2016, and was accompanied by a video directed by Hiro Murai. The second single, "Love & Hate", was released on 7 April 2016.

Usage in media
The song "Cold Little Heart" is also known for being the opening theme of the HBO television series Big Little Lies.

The song "Love & Hate" featured in various shows and films, including the series finale of the Netflix drama Seven Seconds, the Netflix docudrama When They See Us, the legal drama Suits (season 7, episode 8), Rosewood (season 1, episode 22), Animal Kingdom (season 3, episode 11), Dear White People (season 1, episode 5) and the movie The Tax Collector. In 2019, it was used in the italian My Brother Chases Dinosaurs and in 2021, it was again used in an Italian production,  (episode 2, final scene and credits), based in the final season of footballer Francesco Totti at AS Roma. The song "Black Man in a White World" is performed by John Clarence Stewart, in character as Simon Haynes, in "Zoey's Extraordinary Reckoning", the sixth episode of the second season of the musical comedy-drama series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

The song "Rule the World" was featured in the Netflix series The Get Down and the HBO Max original series Hacks.

Critical reception
Upon its release, Love & Hate received widespread critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 86, based on 23 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The Telegraph said "This is an album that sounds like a world of music in itself", while The Guardian called the album "the work of an artist coming into his own". Writing for Exclaim!, Ryan B. Patrick lauded Kiwanuka's "introspective study of himself and his standing in a post-millennial world".

Personnel
Adapted from the Love & Hate booklet.

Performers and musicians
 * Michael Kiwanuka – vocals (all tracks); electric guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8); lead guitar (1, 3, 5, 8); acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5); guitar (2, 9, 10); bass (2, 3, 8, 10); piano (4, 9); backing vocals (5)
 * Inflo – piano (1, 2, 5, 9, 10); drums (1, 5, 8–10); bass (5, 9); backing vocals (4, 5)
 * Brian Burton – bass (1, 5); percussion (1, 3); synth pad (1); piano (3); organ (3, 5)
 * Graham Godfrey – drums (2, 4, 7); percussion (2, 4, 5, 9); hand claps (2); backing vocals, (6); tape machine FX (7)
 * Paul Butler – percussion (4, 6, 7); cello and trumpet (4); electric guitar, keys, drum machines and backing vocals (6); clavinet, Moog, piano and Yamaha CS-80 (7)
 * Andy Parkin – violin (4)
 * Miles James – electric guitar (4)
 * Pete Randall – double bass (4); Fender bass VI (6, 7); backing vocals (4, 6, 7)
 * Gary Plumley – flute (4); saxophone (4, 6)
 * James Bateman – saxophone (6)
 * Paul Boldeau, Phebe Edwards, LaDonna Harley-Peters – backing vocals (1–3, 5, 8, 9)
 * Wired Strings (1–3, 5, 8–10)
 * Jenny Sacha – violin (1–3, 5)
 * Gillon Cameron, Anna Croad, Sally Jackson, Patrick Kieman, Eleanor Mathieson, Kotono Sato, Debbie Widdup – violin (1, 5)
 * Natalia Bonner – violin (2)
 * Kerenza Peacock – violin (3)
 * Emma Owens – viola (1, 2, 5)
 * Nzomi Cohen – viola (1, 5)
 * Becky Jones – viola (3)
 * Rosie Danvers – cello (1–3, 5); string arrangements (1–3, 8–10)
 * Bryony James – cello (1, 5)
 * Richard Pryce – double bass (1, 5)
 * Huw White – string arrangements (5)

Technical
 * Brian Burton (as Danger Mouse) – production (1, 3, 5, 7–10); vocal production (4)
 * Inflo – production (1–3, 5, 8–10); strings production (3, 8, 9)
 * Paul Butler – production, engineering and mixing (4, 6, 7); vocal production (4)
 * Kennie Takahashi – engineering (all tracks, exc. 2, 6); mixing (3, 7, 8, 10)
 * Richard Woodcraft – engineering (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9); strings engineering; mixing (all tracks, exc. 3, 7)
 * Todd Monfalcone – engineering (1, 3–5, 7, 8, 10); mixing assistant (3, 7, 8, 10)
 * Dave Granshaw – engineering (4, 6, 7)
 * Jon McMullen – engineering (6, 7); mix engineering (4)
 * Samur Khouja – engineering (7)
 * Guy Davie – mastering