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8.0
86258
8.0 |
State
Honey feels like a club-ready mix-tape of all the cutting edge Brit-Hop sounds that other artists are only beginning to delve into properly right now
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8.0
86597
8.0 |
musicOMH
Katy B’s brand of Honey, then, is natural and dark, not the treated stuff you’d find in a jar on the supermarket shelf
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7.5
86239
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Kathleen Brien brings a new depth to her electronic pop
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7.2
86294
7.2 |
Resident Advisor
Honey lacks the coherence of her previous albums, but as a love letter to the rave it's eloquent and sincere
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7.0
86168
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Perhaps inevitably, that approach lives and dies based largely on the collaborative tenacity of each track’s guests
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7.0
86170
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
While none of the album is bad, there are a few misfiring moments
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7.0
86171
7.0 |
Spin
It’s the spirit of community that defines Honey, a doting mixtape that cherishes the one thing that matters most to Katy B: club culture
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7.0
86561
7.0 |
Clash
A music realm stacked with mind-numbing, homogeneous house numbers, Katy B still occupies a lane of her own
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7.0
86393
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Katy B has a way to go in separating herself from the influx of R&B singers who dabble in dub, but she’s beginning to pave a path worth following
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7.0
86423
7.0 |
Pitchfork
Where Little Red saw Katy throwing herself into the occasional ballad, Honey is reduced to a pure set of dance music; within these aesthetic limits, though, it may be her most varied record stylistically
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6.0
86477
6.0 |
Uncut
Honey’s intentions are noble but the results are mixed. Print edition only
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6.0
86553
6.0 |
The Quietus
While there is music here for both brain and hips, it's all too rare that the two qualities occur simultaneously and Honey gets sidetracked all too often by self-conscious glances at the charts
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6.0
86285
6.0 |
The Irish Times
A heavyweight cast of collaborators with Brien at the helm
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6.0
86289
6.0 |
The Guardian
It’s left to the production to provide the wit, amusement and emotion
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6.0
86174
6.0 |
Q
This is an album you need to be enveloped by - the louder it is, the better it sounds. Print edition only
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6.0
86169
6.0 |
DIY
The Londoner’s collaborative hotch-potch of underground talents doesn’t lend itself to consistency
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6.0
86300
6.0 |
Beardfood
Katy’s appeal lies in her ability to rave. Stick to that and she’ll slay
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6.0
86373
6.0 |
The FT
Katy conducts the tour smoothly, an engaging vocalist, although the constant stylistic changes prove too much on the grime-inspired “Lose Your Head”
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6.0
86389
6.0 |
NME
‘Honey’ suffers when its producers smooth out their rougher edges to accommodate Katy’s chart-star status
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5.0
86630
5.0 |
No Ripcord
For someone so molded by and devoted to the club scene, Katy B could have extolled the mysteries and dramas of life on the dancefloor with a little more sparkle
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3.0
86688
3.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Honey adopts an unabashedly pandering, “tribute” air reminiscent of the jazz standards compilations aging rock & roll singers release when they’ve exhausted their stores of radical self-reinvention
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