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Redemption

Dawn

Redemption

Third album from the New Orleans R&B singer-songwriter and the final part of a trilogy that includes 2013's Goldenheart and 2015's Blackheart

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Local Action / Our Dawn Entertainment
UK Release date
18/11/2016
US Release date
09/12/2016
  1. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    Put simply, Redemption is an impressively ambitious record, and its to Richard’s credit that she pulls it off as a cohesive piece of work
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  2. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Though she tends to repeat the styles of her earlier works, Richard still sounds like nobody else in the game, and for that Redemption stands apart
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    There will always be a place for music as rich as this that dares to be a little different
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  4. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Delightfully thoughtful and honest
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  5. 8.0 |   The FT

    A vibrant, multi-textured series of songs made in collaboration with electronic music producer Travis “Machinedrum” Stewart
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  6. 8.0 |   All Music

    Redemption is similar to the earlier parts of the trilogy in that it gives the listener a sense of being swept up, though there's little in the way of fantasy or escape here
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  7. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    Redemption is reflective, an unusual headspace for a dance floor album to inhabit
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  8. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Ambitious, compelling, mesmerising
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  9. 8.0 |   Beardfood

    Dawn will quench your thirst for bass, melody, intellect and understanding
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  10. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Overall, this is a satisfying and suitably upbeat conclusion to her Red Heart trilogy. As third acts go it ties things up nicely
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  11. 7.0 |   Clash

    ‘Redemption’ is sometimes a disjointed affair, and seems unlikely to lift D?WN out of the cult leagues
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  12. 6.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    There are moments, particularly toward the album’s second half, where D?WN and Machinedrum are more restrained, enabling their individual approaches to meld together fluently
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