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- Summary: The fifth full-length solo release for the multiple Grammy-winning artist is a concept album built around her muse named Emily (which is also her middle name) and was produced with Tony Visconti.
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- Record Label: Concord
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock
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Good Lava | |
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See this pretty girl Watch this pretty girl flow Lone ranger I see you at the view Wondering from a distance what my pretty pea can do Come bring... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Mar 11, 2016Esperanza Spalding’s new recording, Emily’s D+Evolution is an astonishing beauty, a set of a dozen songs that artfully and persuasively bridge genres.
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Mar 4, 2016The lyrics are elusive at first, darting behind fast-moving songs and delivered in impressionistic, conversational bursts that recall the delivery of Joni Mitchell. But the fearless generosity behind them communicates itself loud and clear, and it's a spirit that animates the entire album. With it, Spalding has once again redefined an already singular career, dictating a vision entirely on her own terms.
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Mar 7, 2016Emily’s D+Evolution is a tight package that should appeal to fans of Janelle Monáe and Joni Mitchell’s more jazzy endeavors, or anyone who is looking for some well crafted, ambiguous music, with elements of jazz, rock, and folk accompanied with some stellar singing.
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Mar 3, 2016Spalding’s voice has never sounded so assured in its dizzying ascents from mid-range murmurs to falsetto swoops. Her singing variously suggests Kate Bush, Janelle Monae or even a female Jack Bruce with a 21st-century Cream.
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Mar 3, 2016While Spalding never sounds anything less than original on the album, part of the beauty here is in recognizing her inspirations and reveling in how she has made them her own.
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Mar 3, 2016Her new album builds on that idea [multi-hyphenate] in a thrilling way, taking the experimental ideals that she learned as a student of jazz into new directions--heady funk, tongue-twisting soul, sparsely arranged confessional --that consistently surprise.
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Mar 2, 2016She still favors too many Wayne Shorterish chord progressions to truly suit the easily impressed. It’s precisely when she stretches--as on “Rest in Pleasure,” which has a melody you wouldn’t wish on a less acrobatic singer--that Ms. Spalding seems most ingenuous and unbound.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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