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Q MagazineSep 24, 2019Less immediate than her band work, it's a record that is rewarding and quietly revelatory. [Nov 2019, p.112]
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UncutSep 16, 2019It's consistently charming. [Oct 2019, p.29]
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Sep 16, 2019Like any other juvenile, Adult Baby boasts the areas in which it could grow further, such as sharper lyrical flows or maybe mixing up the instrumental homogeny. There's only so many times you can hear a snare and cymbal conclude a movement. Yet growing up means making a few mistakes, and to her credit, Mikano leans into every single one to learn something from it.
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Sep 17, 2019Adult Baby works best with the volume turned up, a soft mattress beneath you, all distractions on hold. And even though the music often resists forming into anything as solid as a hook, Makino’s vaporous melodies have a way of creeping up on you long after the record has stopped spinning; they have a sneaky tenacity, like a dream you can’t shake, even if you can’t quite remember its particulars.