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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Precipice is De Souza’s “arrival” album and a singular addition to the contemporary pop canon
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9.0
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A.V. Club
She’s brought herself to the very edge creatively, and the resulting album is stunning. She has earned this moment of glorious reflection
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8.2
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Paste Magazine
The warping of De Souza’s ferocity threads through the beautiful on her fourth album, keeping it from drifting into placidity, stubbornly insisting on weirdness and individuality as a precondition of greatness
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
There's a prolactin-warm ode to cunnilingus, and a synth slowie about death waiting in the wings of love
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7.5
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7.5 |
Under The Radar
While standing upon a precipice, faced with unending uncertainties and wreckage all around her, De Souza chooses to do the only thing she can: she communes, she commiserates, she dances
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7.0
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Uncut
Though her songs deliver a sugar rush and some soar like helium balloons, they're anything but insubstantial. Print edition only
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6.6
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Northern Transmissions
The standout moments on Precipice end up being the ones where De Souza’s radiant personality shines though, but they’re spread far too thinly throughout the short tracklist to stack up to the spontaneous whir of her best work
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6.6
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Pitchfork
With a shift toward cleaned-up synth-pop, the singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album leaves her standout vocal performances feeling less distinct
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6.0
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Dork
‘Precipice’ is a testament to De Souza’s evolution as a songwriter; not a dramatic leap forward, but a gentle step onto solid ground
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6.0
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Spectrum Culture
Precipice is an album that feels like the work of an artist self-consciously reinventing herself to make a run at a higher echelon of stardom
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
Indigo De Souza returns with indie blockbuster album Precipice
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5.0
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5.0 |
Far Out
A beast that’s been tamed too much
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5.0
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5.0 |
All Music
All told, Precipice is enjoyably hooky, but taking the edge off of her sound and, ultimately, songs doesn't do their emotional weight any favors, even if - or rather because - it makes them go down easier
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