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Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks

Princess Nokia

Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks

Simultaneous release for two albums from the New York rapper Destiny Frasqueri

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
Platoon
UK Release date
26/02/2020
US Release date
26/02/2020
  1. 8.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Two wonderfully impressive albums that can be described as perfectly real, hilarious, frivolous and profound, and in certain cases profoundly heartbreaking, by this immensely talented and still growing artist
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  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    The albums are experimental, audacious and constantly surprising. As the world lets go of traditional notions of genre and gender, Frasqueri and her music are at the helm of a revolution of non-conformity
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    With two vastly different records, Princess Nokia has offered as in-depth and personal an insight into her identity as fans could hope for
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

    A musician you can really invest in. Print edition only

  5. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    On a double-set of albums, the New York rapper stakes a claim to life’s dualities, exploring the many layers of her personality with style and vulnerability
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  6. 7.0 |   The Observer

    A fun album that allows Frasqueri to show both sides of her personality. One being polished pop the other gritty hip-hop
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Princess Nokia is for the most part a great rapper, but can sometimes lapse into an artless earnestness, as this enjoyable but patchy diptych demonstrates
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  8. 6.0 |   NME

    Nokia pays tribute to her own protean nature with this double release. One album is soulful, the other aggressive – yet neither pushes her boundaries
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  9. 4.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    These albums are fine, breezy listens, but when we’ve heard Princess Nokia come through with a fully fleshed personality in the past, it’s hard not to feel that the music here is faceless
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