). He sings, he raps, and he plays guitar, bass, and drums, contributing nearly all the instrumental parts to his albums.sounds like the work of someone who’s stepped off the hamster wheel, however briefly, to wonder why he spent so much time running in the first place. Nnamdï dials down the goofy wordplay and madcap energy of albums past, though they’re far from gone—and another Nnamdï calling card, wholesale stylistic shifts within a song, continue to abound throughout.
He’s at his blithe, bounceable best on “I Don’t Wanna Be Famous,” divulging quarter-life anxieties in the process. However, a line in the earlier song “Armoire” might be the album’s most telling: “I used to dream I could have everything / I can finally see / That I already did.”release show on October 7 turned the House of Vans into “Nnamdï’s Pancake Haus,” a big-boy version ofhe and his brother Alfred ran out of their suburban family home.