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10.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
An album that embraces the quiet solitude of a night spent alone, looking at the ocean
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9.1
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Spin
Throughout the album, it feels like Aftab is standing on the precipice of transformation—taking a moment to peer into a wild, fluorescent new future and admire all it could have in store
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9.0
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Uncut
Her songs feel so neatly woven that they deny all attempts to tease them apart. Listening to Night Reign, you mostly find yourself focusing on Aftab’s voice – a rich and smoky thing, gentle and open-hearted on “Whiskey”, reaching back through the centuries on “Na Gul”. Print edition only
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9.0
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The Irish Times
The fourth album from Pakistani-American singer and composer is set to continue her ascent from secret treasure to irresistible purveyor of ‘global soul’
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9.0
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PopMatters
Arooj Aftab’s Night Reign is filled with dark, mysterious corners and an intoxicating blend of jazz and her Pakistani roots with stunning results
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8.5
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Beats Per Minute
Night Reign is darker than dark with only Aftab’s voice as a guide; yet it upturns the unlikeliest of finds
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8.4
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Northern Transmissions
It’s a beautiful album that she will be touring in the coming months, and it promises to be a life-changing show
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8.3
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Pitchfork
The singer and composer’s wondrous fourth album deepens the sound of her boundless folk-jazz style. Its gestures are bold, romantic, and often unforgettable
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8.0
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The Quietus
These are deep, emotional, sometimes bruising songs, though the insinuation of total darkness belies the exquisiteness of its spiritually rigorous forty-eght minutes
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8.0
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Far Out
Aftab has conflated the sounds of her heritage with more elegance and affinity than ever before, creating a jazz-Lahorian sound akin to Billie Holiday performing in the foothills of the Himalayas
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
She has worlds in her voice, as intimate and expansive as her own imagination
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8.0
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Mojo
Dizzied, delirious, conflicted, Night Reign draws in tight around you. Print edition only
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8.0
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All Music
Night Reign is a powerful, sensuous, and commanding illustration of the artist's mature vision. It reveals just how receptive, and even vulnerable she is to the spirits of creative inquiry, possibility, and revelation
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8.0
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The Guardian
Mercurial and moody soundscapes are infused with wistful romance in one of the Grammy-winning singer and composer’s most spirited records to date
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