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9.0
10635
9.0 |
PopMatters
With each fragile note, she conveys experience and doe-eyed enthusiasm, optimism and loneliness, and ends up wooing us and wowing us in the process
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9.0
10687
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
One of the most important artists currently working in the music industry, major label or otherwise
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9.0
10925
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
An early contender for album of the year ... This is a record that confidently stands alone as brilliant, yet remains an equally perfect companion to a modern classic
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8.0
11546
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
11919
8.0 |
No Ripcord
It is an accomplished yet often tense album that oozes quality and confidence in both production and delivery
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8.0
10825
8.0 |
The Guardian
As with Badu herself, all is gratifyingly not as it first appeared
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8.0
10885
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Relaxed, personal funk that scans more like a sketchbook than an album
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8.0
10894
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
10738
8.0 |
musicOMH
Badu remains a singular, refreshingly unpolished talent. Marvellous stuff
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8.0
10574
8.0 |
The Times
Slinky, at times raw and eccentric, and built, like her 1997 debut Baduizm, on a foundation of lurve
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8.0
10575
8.0 |
The Independent
This is superior seductive R&B which doesn't insult your intelligence while still turning your head
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7.0
10578
7.0 |
The Observer
Badu's latest turns its skewed sights on love in both soppy and calculating fashion
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6.0
10596
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The whole is less than the sum of its parts
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6.0
10763
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Badu seems so taken by hazy texture — and so determined to play the weirdo — that she's neglected to write many actual songs
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6.0
10671
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Badu here favours the warm mellifluous tones of late 1970s and early 1980s funk. And very cosy and reassuring it is too
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4.0
10668
4.0 |
The Scotsman
Conventional and somewhat anachronistic snoozy soul funk
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