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Rachel Chinouriri
What A Devastating Turn Of Events
In these hard times, the 25-year-old's characterful tunes are warm and uplifting: music primed for brighter days ahead
NME
Camera Obscura
Look to the East, Look to the West
Tracyanne Campbell still writes exquisite songs that don’t sacrifice melancholy for cleverness, and the band still provide smart arrangements that nod to country, Motown, Brill Building pop and other distinctly American sounds. Print edition only
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Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Each track is woven with a tapestry of timpani, glockenspiel, baritone saxophone, and flute yet this orchestration never sounds too much retaining a subtlety and cavernous space. It allows her fantastic vocals, vivid couplets, and bittersweet melodies to radiate
God Is In The TV
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Pratt has long been a consummate texturalist; mining the pop playbook in resourceful ways, she’s now an exemplary tunesmith as well – the result is sublime
The Line Of Best Fit
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
With her best songs yet, the Californian singer’s fourth album could transform her from fringe act to mainstream success
The Guardian
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Jessica Pratt’s fourth album of hypnagogic folk music hones her mysterious song to its finest point
Pitchfork
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Here in the Pitch is another leap forward that sees her pushing into new realms with stunning effect
Under The Radar
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Her songs are still wounded and far away, but the expanded instrumentation gives them a prismatic glow and makes for one of the most fascinating and repeatable sets from an artist who was already in a class by herself
All Music
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
Don't worry so much about what it all means, lie back and let the tape hiss. Print edition only
Mojo
Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
A cresting, rolling record of complexity and depth. Print edition only
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Jessica Pratt
Here In The Pitch
The Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s fourth album — and her first in five years — attempts to reckon with time and all of its charms, disasters and unknowns
Paste Magazine
Dua Lipa
Radical Optimism
I can’t see ‘Radical Optimism’ sliding in straight to number one in fans’ affections, but if the slow-burn of ‘Future Nostalgia’ is anything to go by, Dua Lipa would have grounds to be, as her latest project suggests, radically optimistic about the album’s future
Clash
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