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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
On Orquídeas, Uchis remains true to herself by restlessly expanding her music's stylistic reach, embracing the past as instructor to the present. It is as aesthetically appealing as it is musically adventurous
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9.0
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9.0 |
PopMatters
On Orquisideas, Kali Uchis yet again proves she is the Queen of Concept, delivering a clever, thoughtful album inspired by the “sensual allure of the orchid”
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8.9
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8.9 |
Paste Magazine
Uchis dazzles on her sanguine fourth album, a genre-hopping Spanish-language LP that is a celestial joyride from beginning to end
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8.4
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8.4 |
Pitchfork
With a lavish new album, the Colombian American singer serves up lush ballads about protecting your peace and sizzling reggaeton to disturb it
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Observer
The Colombian-American’s follow-up to Red Moon in Venus showcases her musical and linguistic versatility – and a steamy succession of guests
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
Kali is the driving force keeping this mélange from becoming messy. She masterfully melds this eclectic mix of popified sounds into magic
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
Less hazy than her recent Red Moon in Venus, the witty Colombian American singer returns with an album centred on reggaeton, cumbia and reggae rhythms
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8.0
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NME
The Colombian-American's second album in the space of the year – largely in Spanish – shows an artist consistently reinventing and refining her craft
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Across the album, Uchis is bolder and more forthright than on past releases. So often, she’s played the languid cool girl, but she breaks out of her shell again and again this time out. She dives deeper into new sounds, and she flourishes the entire way
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
What Uchis has done here is to mix her Latin roots and her desire to explore niche Latin American genres with her dreamy chillhop trademark to come up with a perfectly delivered and diverse range of musical proposals
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
Orquídeas is a display of bravura and an entire album of sweet spots
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Kali Uchis dives further into the divine on the genre-bending Orquídeas
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7.7
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7.7 |
Spectrum Culture
Her second album within a year proves only that Kali Uchis has a lot of musical territory to cover and plenty of sensual, personal stories to share
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7.5
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7.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Though the second half Orquídeas breaks stylistically with the first – sometimes a bit too abrasively to stay fully engaged – it nevertheless makes sense for an artist like Uchis, who is trying to break industry conventions one project at a time
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Her voice is a seductive instrument
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
The Colombian-American singer embraces her other language in a sensual new record themed around orchids
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