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9.0
136739
9.0 |
Exclaim
A tough listen, and might take a bit of research and a few listens to fully situate in its various contexts
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8.6
136741
8.6 |
Paste Magazine
With a bevy of collaborators, the Philadelphia poet, singer and songwriter’s latest album interrogates British history to reveal hellish, necessary truths
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8.4
136800
8.4 |
Northern Transmissions
It is a discomforting album for a discomforting history, and Moor Mother delivers it with astonishing clarity
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8.4
136705
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
Ayewa embraces an austere aesthetic while carrying a bright activistic torch. She casts searing light on the unreconciled, and perhaps unreconcilable, hypocrisies that continue to plague the Western world
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8.0
136706
8.0 |
The Quietus
A hauntingly edifying experience born out of intergenerational trauma, political rage and suffering
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8.0
136707
8.0 |
Mojo
A grand, artistic and political statement in an age when such vision is too rarely attempted. Print edition only
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8.0
136708
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A dense and visceral history lesson from Moor Mother
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8.0
136710
8.0 |
All Music
Her concentration on an especially brutal historical subject makes it one of her most bracing works, and it becomes more compelling and powerful with increased intention and awareness
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8.0
136794
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
All the rage, frustration and hopelessness are refined into Moor Mother’s lushly dystopian interpretation of the world—a world whose existence is perpetuated by our refusal to acknowledge it
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7.8
136715
7.8 |
Pitchfork
Fueled by controlled fury and unfathomable sorrow, Camaea Ayewa’s latest album of Afrofuturist collage traces the traumatic legacy of European colonialism
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6.0
136711
6.0 |
The Skinny
From the voice and vision of an artist working on every fringe of the underground, Moor Mother’s latest is her most idiosyncratic to a fault
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