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9.0
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Northern Transmissions
The staggering approach Genesis Owusu takes on Smiling With No Teeth is both complicated and confusing which wouldn’t work for many artists. Yet his dynamic approach to music has allowed him to put forth a body of work that is diverse and eclectic yet still cohesive across the board. It shouldn’t work, but it does
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9.0
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Loud And Quiet
A triumph from top to bottom, Smiling… sets the stage for Genesis Owusu to become a potentially generation-defining star
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Between his moves from alluringly measured R&B, to the outraged and the microphone smashing, fist-pumping, mosh pit inducing vocals and vehement rapping, Smiling With No Teeth is a party we’re all dying to be invited to but it turns out we're already there
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9.0
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musicOMH
It’s an album that’s easy to feel intimidated by at first listen, due to its sheer scale and ambition. However, after a few listens you’ll be in no doubt that Genesis Owusu is one of the most exciting names of the year
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8.6
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Once it sinks its teeth in, this thing is packed with enough sweet syrup and grooves to get your hips gyrating and pelvis popping, while simultaneously dark and twisted enough to make you blow chunks
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Arts Desk
The musical magpie-ism is more Prince than pastiche
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8.0
123944
8.0 |
DIY
He plays well with dark and sinister, throwing theatrical voice in a musical hall of mirrors with real versatility
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8.0
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NME
The Canberran artist defies the conventions of Australian hip-hop, personalising jazz-funk, punk and folk on his debut
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
With strong, clear-eyed subtext, overlaid by compositions that touch on every influence from TV on the Radio to Prince, Childish Gambino and Radiohead, Smiling With No Teeth is not so much an album as it is a memoir
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7.0
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7.0 |
Gigwise
Whether you're a fan of high energy hip-hop, raw punk-esque guitars or soulful R&B, there is something on the album for you
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