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  • Summary: One of two releases [the other is a live album] in March 2017 for the avant-garde singer, the studio album features jazz and traditional standards.
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  1. Mar 30, 2017
    80
    All The Way is particularly strong, however, for both the production of Galás' piano and its melodies--there is an added, foreboding subtlety which comes through with more clarity here.
  2. The Wire
    Jun 2, 2017
    80
    Refusing facsimile, Galás’s music attains its weight and power not from its oddity but from its humanity. [Apr 2017, p.53]
  3. Uncut
    Mar 30, 2017
    80
    A satisfactorily dramatic return. [May 2017, p.30]
  4. Apr 26, 2017
    80
    The more populist material that makes up All the Way is stripped of any comfort such familiarity may provide by Galás’s jarring reinventions.
  5. Magnet
    Apr 26, 2017
    80
    Both [At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem and All The Way] elicit a simultaneous sense of terror and wonder as to what demons are flowing through her bloodstream and how she's managed to harness them for the power of artistic good. [No. 141, p.57]
  6. Mar 30, 2017
    77
    Galás’ sense of dynamics is all the more moving when you sort of know how the song’s supposed to go.
  7. Mojo
    Mar 30, 2017
    60
    Her impact remains astounding, but a The Sporting Life-style left-turn is long overdue. [May 2017, p.95]
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