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| 0.0 | jasonslfl | July 24th 20 |
Just wanted to pop in to highlight the beauty that is the drum change-up at the beginning of the Weird Fishes cover.
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| 4.5 superb | dakotadsmith | June 22nd 22 |
AHAHAAHAHA I'm laughing at you because you don't have a voice as beautiful and lush as
Lianne La Havas ahahah you stupid idiot.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | June 21st 22 |
This is surely slightly heightened by having seen it live before listening to it properly, but man what an absolute queen album. My main gripe with her prior output was that the individual tracks were quite good but the overall albums felt a bit compilationey and lacking an overarching identity; this is now fully resolved, for this s/t has a sound and sticks to it all the way through whilst exploring different directions it can be taken in. It's no wonder when I saw her life I could tell which songs were from this new LP without having listened to it - and I had a pulse of serotonin when recognising them again here too. Every track is a success, her vocal performance is outstanding, the instruments are having fun, even the interlude is a good time - an LP I'll be happy to rejam in full. 4.15
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| 4.5 superb | charlopiano | August 23rd 21 |
There's some kind of musicians that you can't have 2 of. For example, no one has been able to Daft Punk like Daft Punk. And I thought that no one would be able to Lauryn Hill like Lauryn Hill, but Lianne does it amazingly so. She's an exceptional vocalist and you can add to that some great instrumentation that takes influence from many genres. Also, somebody give that bassist an award or something, cause this bass is just bonkers.
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| 4.5 superb | PrincyAli | July 17th 21 |
A beautiful album that's near perfect with amazing vocals. 4.5/5 Favs: Bittersweet, Read My Mind, Green Papaya, Can't Fight, Weird Fishes, Please Don't Make Me Cry, Seven Times, Courage, Sour Flower
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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. STAFF | January 6th 21 |
A peaceful and introspective experience. La Havas' voice is nothing short of amazing, warmly unfolding its various nuances on top of neo-soul instrumentation and folky - almost lo-fi - strummings. It's soothing at its core, but the sonic landscape tends to stay too often within the same energy range, causing some redundancy across the album, especially in its first half.
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| 4.0 excellent | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | December 29th 20 |
This is very, very nice. Her voice I was most sceptical about, but it wasn't all that flat and breathy as I feared. She always managed to pull a few tricks here and there and make it sound all the more lovely.
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| 3.0 good | cjbizzlebizzle | November 20th 20 |
Really like 'Bittersweet', 'Weird Fishes' and 'Sour Flower' but outside of that it feels like the album is just meandering along and lacks the beautiful and truly powerful vocals and energy those tracks manage to encapsulate. The album is best when it is mid to uptempo and the instrumentation is allowed to wander and develop a bit more and that does not happen quite enough for an album that is almost an hour long.
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| 4.5 superb | BlazinBlitzer | October 14th 20 |
Some of the best soul music I've heard in ages. Lianne La Havas has really perfected the craft of lush atmospheres and infectious songwriting on this project and there's a wonderful thematic variety from track to track both lyrically and instrumentally. Truly an amazing work.
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| 2.5 average | RhaegarHarp | August 16th 20 |
Everything besides the Weird Fishes cover is lacking in focus. The majority serves a better purpose as a 30-second outro than complete songs of themselves.
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| 4.0 excellent | hamid95 | July 24th 20 |
this needs more attention asap >>>
that weird fishes cover is great stuff, didn't think she'd pull it off
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| 4.0 excellent | daisukesato | July 24th 20 |
While not as sonically refined as her previous album 'Blood', La Havas still delivers one of this
year's most soulful and energizing records. And, God, that voice is simply breathtaking.
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| 4.0 excellent | Henry | April 6th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rowdy | May 5th 22 |
| 3.5 great | sncold | August 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fugue | August 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | ckssr1 | June 15th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | MiMi40 | February 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | January 7th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Pangea | January 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
| 3.5 great | fog CONTRIBUTOR | December 3rd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Onirium | November 11th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Runeii | November 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bonny99 | October 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | October 3rd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Pon EMERITUS | October 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | September 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | ellagos | August 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | aroyp | August 11th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Yebele | August 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Arctick | August 4th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | DANcore | August 1st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | lg433 | July 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | July 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | chwe | July 27th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Corney | July 25th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Mathias STAFF | July 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Khattak | July 24th 20 |
| 3.5 great | greg84 EMERITUS | July 24th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Murat | July 22nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | bharry | July 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | July 19th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Sowing STAFF | July 18th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | nedical | July 17th 20 |
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