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Weirdo

Emma-Jean Thackray

Weirdo

Second full-length release from the Yorkshire-born London-based jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Parlophone
UK Release date
25/04/2025
US Release date
25/04/2025
  1. 9.0 |   Clash

    NEW Weirdo’s effervescent funk and pained emotions are a genuinely strange and singular concoction. Its combination of some of the most gorgeous jazz-funk and heart-wrenching lyrics you’ll hear all year means that Thackray’s latest is tough to shake off
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  2. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    NEW She deals throughout in uplift and empowerment, both lyrics and music shining blazing floodlights into the darkest corners of her most despairing moments, showing us the routes she used to climb her way out and allowing us to follow her when we want or need to
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  3. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    NEW At 19 tracks, Weirdo presents a potentially overwhelming spread of sound, but it’s impossible to identify any flab or superfluous moments here: musically eclectically inspired, thematically deep and profound, Weirdo is a total triumph
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    NEW An album born of grief that is unafraid to take risks and, in so doing, underlines a huge talent
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  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    NEW It's a densely layered, frictional set that matches emotional heft and musical invention in equal and impressive measure. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    NEW Funny, bleak, cathartic and brave, with a winning redemption arc, in all but design Weirdo is a blues album - transforming unbearable pain into deeply affecting, original art. Print edition only


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