Lineage (Shigeto album)

Zachary Shigeto Saginaw, known mononymously as Shigeto, is an American musician originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lineage is a follow-up to his debut studio album, Full Circle (2010), and is a mini-album consisting of eight songs. After finishing Full Circle, he bought a Rhodes piano, a kalimba, a harp, a Moog synthesizer, and percussive instruments. His grandparents and great-grandparents were sent to the internment camps during World War II, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. == Critical reception ==

Sam Louis of Resident Advisor stated, "In contrast to his aforementioned contemporaries [Teebs and Shlohmo], Shigeto's Lineage feels more full-bodied and cohesive, even if the sound palette is similar in many ways." Larry Fitzmaurice of Pitchfork commented that "Lineages clean style and easily admirable sound might seem refreshing when taken into context with the teeming pot of acid-stained, bunk-bed J Dilla imitators that continue to clog up RSS feeds with poorly-tagged MP3s and 1980s-sitcom-referencing artwork, but the fact of the matter is that Lineage isn't the first record to sound like Lineage." Benjamin Aspray of PopMatters called Lineage "a step back for Shigeto in an apparent attempt at progress." He added, "The relative rawness of Full Circle has been streamlined seemingly in the interest of dexterity and a mellower mood, with the effect of eliminating some of that earlier album's subtle power." == Track listing ==

Credits adapted from liner notes. • Zachary Saginaw – production • Michael Cina – artwork == References ==