℗ 2021 GroundUP Music
Released | June 25, 2021 |
Duration | 43m 48s |
Record Label | GroundUP Music |
Catalogue No. | GUM2021MLDIG |
Genre | Rock (Alternative) |
1.1
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Sentinel Species
Michael League |
4:35 | |||
1.2
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Me, Like You
Michael League |
4:05 | |||
1.3
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Right Where I Fall
Michael League |
3:06 | |||
1.4
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Since You've Been By
Michael League |
4:05 | |||
1.5
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I Wonder Who You Know
Michael League |
4:06 | |||
1.6
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Touch Me
Michael League |
3:54 | |||
1.7
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Best of All Time
Michael League |
3:55 | |||
1.8
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In Your Mouth
Michael League |
4:49 | |||
1.9
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Ever the Actor
Michael League |
3:35 | |||
1.10
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Fireside EXPLICIT
Michael League |
3:35 | |||
1.11
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The Last Friend
Michael League |
4:03 |
"So Many Me makes an inspired title for Michael League’s first solo project, in part because it’s so on the nose: He’s responsible for every sound—every vocal, every instrument—heard on the recording’s 11 tracks [...] A product of League’s quarantine period in Spain, So Many Me represents a major musical divergence from his other work. It’s really more about ethereal pop than anything else, with his multitracked vocals, often clustered together in lush harmonies, topping synth-heavy keyboards."
- Jazz Times
For nearly two decades, four-time GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer, arranger, and songwriter Michael League has been an innovative force in modern music, whose grass-roots approach to the industry has made an imprint across multiple continents and genres. Known best as the leader of the instrumental ensemble Snarky Puppy, League has performed thousands of shows, released dozens of studio and live albums, and garnered accolades from the New York Times, Downbeat, Jazz Times, and Rolling Stone, among many others. The busy artist is also a founding member of the GRAMMY®-nominated supergroup Bokanté and oversees GroundUP Music—a fiercely independent label which he established in 2012. As a versatile producer and songwriter, League has collaborated with a broad spectrum of artists, including David Crosby, Esperanza Spaulding, Kirk Franklin, Joe Walsh, Daedelus, and Terence Blanchard.
Throughout his many ventures, however, League has always felt most comfortable within a collaborative setting, whether he’s bringing musicians together from across the globe, planning the latest edition of the GroundUP Music Festival, or writing one-on-one with a partner. While the notion of a solo record first took shape in 2015, League’s demanding schedule always prevented him from pursuing it in earnest. And then, in March 2020, the world went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
With tours canceled, studios shuttered, and projects on hold indefinitely, League finally had the time to make this record—titled So Many Me. Yet, lyrically and musically, his first solo album was a very different project—and process—than what he had initially envisioned five years earlier.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – GroundUP Music Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.52 -0.95 to -0.09 | -13.98 -18.23 to -11.09 | -12.05 -15.70 to -9.40 | 8 7 to 10 | |
1 | Sentinel Species | 0.00 | -12.35 | -10.3 | 7 |
2 | Me, Like You | 0.00 | -12.30 | -11.0 | 7 |
3 | Right Where I Fall | 0.00 | -14.81 | -13.3 | 7 |
4 | Since You've Been By | 0.00 | -11.09 | -9.4 | 7 |
5 | I Wonder Who You Know | 0.00 | -14.42 | -12.2 | 9 |
6 | Touch Me | 0.00 | -13.07 | -11.3 | 7 |
7 | Best of All Time | 0.00 | -14.85 | -12.9 | 8 |
8 | In Your Mouth | -0.09 | -14.79 | -12.8 | 9 |
9 | Ever the Actor | 0.00 | -14.48 | -12.4 | 8 |
10 | Fireside | 0.00 | -13.36 | -11.2 | 8 |
11 | The Last Friend | -0.95 | -18.23 | -15.7 | 10 |