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Aug 26, 2021The record has achieved a rare quality: It sounds as though it was made just for you.
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Aug 23, 2021Any Shape You Take attempts to connect the dots, unafraid of expressing the depths nor the heights of a life lived with supreme sensitivity.
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Aug 27, 2021Given all the heavy ideas and emotions on Any Shape You Take, it’s a minor miracle how bright and immediate it all sounds, without a whiff of self-seriousness or schmaltz.
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Sep 2, 2021On Any Shape You Take, De Souza commits herself to being undone, to experiencing the terrible feelings and the beautiful ones. Even when she’s fucked-up, there is something ecstatic in her attempts at loving, her hunger to absorb all she can from life.
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Aug 30, 2021It's a remarkably restless and hungry 40 minutes of music, maybe bordering on scattershot, if not for one thing holding it all together. That would be De Souza's own vocals. Put simply, she gives the best performance of the year on this album, her powerhouse voice bursting out of the seams of every song like it simply can't be contained.
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Sep 1, 2021It’s this open-heartedness that shines through Any Shape You Take. There may be death, depression, heartbreak, sex, screams and swearing throughout, but they are momentary – what remains is De Souza’s tenderness and truthfulness.
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Aug 30, 2021De Souza charges through Any Shape with an intensity that grabs you by the throat, squeezing out every drop of your humanity.
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Aug 27, 2021‘Any Shape You Take’, rich in the emotional palette that it’s genre-free conveys, gathers together sentiments that may be familiar to many but haven’t been depicted in the vivid and complex methods explored here.
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Aug 26, 2021From the desert-blues guitar that knits itself across the muscular coda of "Real Pain," the way De Souza's voice condenses to a vein of skyward fluorescence on "Bad Dream" or the latticework rhythm on the sparkling "Hold U," Any Shape You Take is endlessly energized, each corroded riff and synth streak glowing with purpose.
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Aug 26, 2021It’s simultaneously euphoric and angsty.
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Aug 25, 2021What she does do is elegantly weave different worlds together while staying true to herself throughout. It’s a follow-up that seals her as a new icon for outsiders, in whatever shape she takes.
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MojoAug 23, 2021See-saws between manic joy and depressive darkness but never loses its sense of wit, grace or noise-dipped tunefulness. [Oct 2021, p.96]
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UncutAug 23, 2021De Souza's ability to balance the brute force of "Real Pain" and "Bad Dream" with something as sunny as "Hold U" is another reason to look forward to more of her shapeshifting. [Sep 2021, p.27]
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Aug 23, 2021The album spans TikTok pop to grunge and lots in between. De Souza commits to them all.
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Aug 26, 2021The follow-up delves into dysfunctional relationships, death, and despair with a more polished yet still hooky, jagged indie rock co-produced by De Souza and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 18 out of 20
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Mixed: 1 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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Nov 29, 2021
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Oct 31, 2021perfeita demais amo muito ! indigo de souza deu seu nome nesse álbum omg voa garota
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Oct 30, 2021