• Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Nov 19, 2021
Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Dec 21, 2021
    90
    Gay more than succeeds in weaving all of these seemingly disparate sounds together, and Open Arms to Open Us has the engaging feeling of walking through a kaleidoscopic multimedia art installation.
  2. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Gay’s latest is a deep dive into memory but emerges as a triumphant celebration of a past and future antilineage, uniquely conjured from the inner complexities of an artist not tortured by the past but possessed by it. [Dec 2021, p.50]
  3. Mojo
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    The whole of Open Arms is much larger than the sum of its parts. [Jan 2022, p.89]
  4. Dec 21, 2021
    75
    Open Arms to Open Us is adventure writ large, a rhythmical hymn to boundless possibility.

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