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8.0
101132
8.0 |
The Guardian
It’s all done with a precision and neatness that betrays Iqbal’s dance music roots, with each moment providing an aesthetic delight
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8.0
101165
8.0 |
The Observer
An album that improves with each listen, with an accomplished, ornate warmth
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8.0
101199
8.0 |
Mojo
It's got real presence. Print edition only
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8.0
101305
8.0 |
Q
Her debut has an unaffected candour rare in electronic music. Print edition only
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8.0
101394
8.0 |
Mixmag
There are touches of minimalist composition, 80s new wave and the psychedelic shoegaze fizz of Lush and Cocteau Twins – all music where individual expression is subsumed to sound and texture
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7.7
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Pitchfork
British producer Nabihah Iqbal—fka Throwing Shade—has a rare touch with inky new wave synths and drum machines, emerging as a songwriter of impressive emotional heft
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7.0
101131
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It’s an honest record, one that puts Iqbal’s own deftly balanced sound and influences to the forefront, while also having some piercing yet thoughtful insights into contemporary society
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6.2
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Resident Advisor
Guitar music provides a new direction, but not necessarily more impact
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6.0
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6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
For all its faults, Iqbal’s reclamation of her birth name, standing proudly as a female British Asian artist, assumes a pivotal place at the turn of her second musical life. If this is anything to go by, there’s a lot more to come
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5.0
101129
5.0 |
Exclaim
Weighing of the Heart plays out as the soundtrack to a forgotten '90s B movie; novel, but not great
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