Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning is a 2023 album by American jazz musician Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah released by Ropeadope Records.
[4] Andrew Sacher of BrooklynVegan included this as one of the notable releases of the week, writing that the album's mixture of "it's heavy on chanted vocals, polyrhythmic percussion, and the same interest in sound manipulation that he had in his jazz era" as well as "elements of popular American-centric music, from fuzzed-out rock guitars to electronic-seeming drums" works as the artist "has a way of making it sound compelling even to listeners who would otherwise be unfamiliar with the types of things he's referencing".
[5] Writing for Glide Magazine, Jim Hynes summed up his review "even the most ardent Chief Adjuah fans may not quite be ready for this non-jazz offering, but it proves increasingly infectious with repeated listens and marks yet another step forward for one of the most innovative artists of our time".
[6] In The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello called this release "a paean" to the legacy of Black Indian music, "and an announcement of how he plans to carry the torch forward".
[2] At Stereogum, editors chose to focus on this release for their monthly jazz review, connecting the work to other African-influenced jazz from America and critic Phil Freeman wrote that "it's possible to draw a line from Rewind That to Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning and understand it all as part of one long narrative of reclamation, of declaration, of mourning and celebration and braggadocio and resistance, that is both uniquely New Orleans and deeply universal and human".