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Ada Lea
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Rather than laboured, this album is patient. Rather than repetitive, it’s coherent and rather than unsure, it feels resolutely confident
Far Out
Ada Lea
When I Paint My Masterpiece
She takes memories and splashes them around in them, a style she's made her own. Hokey, lo-fi acoustics and a fluid off-key croon add a surreal edge. Print edition only
Mojo
Ada Lea
When I Paint My Masterpiece
If there's a knock on when i paint my masterpiece's 200-to-16 approach, it's that the album's recording style is its most cohesive trait, with the track list sometimes seeming like a Bob Dylan exercise, followed by a Frankie Cosmos op, a quasi-tango study ("dogs playing in the backyard"), etc. - xeven if that playful, adventurous spirit is also part of its charm
All Music
Ada Lea
When I Paint My Masterpiece
With an unforced approach and humble wit, musician and visual artist Alexandra Levy reflects on creativity, community, and writing a song even Bob Dylan can’t
Pitchfork
Ada Lea
When I Paint My Masterpiece
An intimate record full of poetic and melodic turns, giving you the impression that sometimes Levy herself is surprised by where it takes her
The Line Of Best Fit
Amaarae
Black Star
Amaarae’s third album has moments of truly sublime pop magic, but only once you get past its early bloodlessness
The Skinny
Amaarae
Black Star
This isn’t a pristine album. It mutates, glitches, repeats itself
The Quietus
Amaarae
Black Star
It completes Amaarae’s transition from a fringe Alté artist to a future-pop icon in the making
Clash
Amaarae
Black Star
Amaarae dives into love, lust and digital excess – and it’s a wild, hypnotic ride
NME
Amaarae
Black Star
With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all love
The Guardian
Amaarae
Black Star
The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victory lap for a star at the peak of her powers
Pitchfork
The New Eves
The New Eve Is Rising
Referencing moments in music history, the Brighton four-piece’s debut convincingly twists them to its singular path
musicOMH
S.G. Goodman
Planting By The Signs
Like all of the best folk music, S.G. Goodman’s songs plumb emotional depths. They also have teeth and they’re not afraid to stick a beating on the world
PopMatters
Debby Friday
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life
he’s always laid her own foundations, sought pleasure in crushing times, and created revelry when she couldn’t find it. On The Starrr of the Queen of Life, she does so with greater self-assurance than ever
Northern Transmissions
Debby Friday
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life
Taking her sound to new heights, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life sees Friday exploring cosmic soundscapes, welding together a collection of accessible electropop anthems that shine bright amongst the burnt out stars of the genre
God Is In The TV
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