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10.0
111295
10.0 |
NME
One of the albums of the year, this is a confident and self-assured project that affirms the Chicago musician's own place alongside the historical greats she praises
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10.0
111309
10.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
This record could be the basis for a college course or used as an actually accurate history book
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9.0
111278
9.0 |
All Music
This galvanizing declaration of pride, support, and discontent will no doubt inspire covers itself. Every public library should have at least one copy
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9.0
111226
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A series of sleek homages to the various artistic and emotional lineages that Jamila Woods embodies; a neat conceit which holds the album together without dominating it
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9.0
111267
9.0 |
Uncut
Serves as both a potent primer on the traumas and triumphs of life in a not-so-racial America and an enthralling demonstration of her playful musical sensibility. Print edition only
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9.0
111271
9.0 |
PopMatters
Jamila Woods, herself, a poet, singer, activist, and teacher, casts Legacy! Legacy! as a beacon for a type of self-empowerment informed by the predecessors who built and shaped culture
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8.5
111291
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
She begins and ends by singing with a “I am not your typical girl,” with a giddy grin. No shit, Jamila!
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8.5
111324
8.5 |
Pitchfork
The Chicago artist marries political commentary with deep introspection, resulting in a richly composed R&B album about the echoes of the past and the promise of the future.
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8.5
111327
8.5 |
Under The Radar
Educates and enrages but also moves, heals, and leaves you full-hearted with hips and shoulders swaying to each track's studied and hypnotic groove
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8.0
111298
8.0 |
The Observer
Poetry in motion
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8.0
111277
8.0 |
The FT
The second album by the Chicago-based singer reinterprets her African-American musical heroines and heroes
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8.0
111269
8.0 |
The Guardian
A free-spirited and joyful record, infused with a sense of community and full of affirmations you can repeat in the mirror
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8.0
111261
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The Chicago r&b poet plumbs black history to locate her personal place in it, with help from Saba, Nitty Scott
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8.0
111223
8.0 |
Exclaim
A complex and near-flawless reworking of genre as the singer-songwriter evolves her art, thought and reason for being
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8.0
111224
8.0 |
Clash
Emotion and passion are apparent in every word, key and chord throughout this project
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8.0
111225
8.0 |
The Music
Woods constructs lyrics that build on what she has learned from everyone named on this album
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8.0
111465
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Chronicles the adversity that women of color regularly face, but at the heart of Woods’s music is an urgent desire to heal and be healed
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6.0
111383
6.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
As if straining to generate a formal correlative for her busy network of allusions and stated influences, Woods packs her tunes with seemingly bottomless sonic details
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