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You're the One

Rhiannon Giddens

You're the One

Fourth album from the folk / Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman featuring a guest appearance by Jason Isbell

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Nonesuch
UK Release date
18/08/2023
US Release date
18/08/2023
  1. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Giddens should at some point put her imprimatur on the Great American Songbook
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Although her performances throughout are strong and persuasive, the album doesn’t knit together convincingly
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  3. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Rhiannon Giddens touches nothing carelessly, and it’s true even—maybe especially—in the songs on You’re the One— which feel the most carefree and, subsequently, the most interested in encouraging a sense of abandon and movement in the listener
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  4. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    The MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer-winner keeps taking chances, and comes out on top every time
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  5. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    You’re the One occasionally suffers from its lofty goals: “Who Are You Dreaming Of,” which sets her voice to luxurious orchestration ordinary reserved for pre-rock standards, feels oddly out of place. But on her most outward-looking record, Giddens melds the past and present, writing a bold new future for herself in the process.
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  6. 7.0 |   Uncut

    The countrier she keeps it, the better. Print edition only

  7. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    On her first album of all original songs, the folk polyglot seeks livelier rhythms and vocal styles infused with jazz, country, and zydeco
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  8. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Its dozen tunes about finding love, rejecting losers, and criticising corrupt systems are a patchwork of assorted American pops. Print edition only


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