Beautiful Africa
by Rokia Traoré
  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Apr 8, 2013
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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#16 Best Album of 2013

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Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Expert Witness (MSN Music)
    Sep 27, 2013
    83
    she recorded her fourth album with Polly Jean Harvey adjutant John Parish, and musically they get results.... But non-Bamanan speakers may well find that her supple vocals are no more engaging should they follow her unremarkable spiritual tribulations in English or French.
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  2. The New York Times
    Sep 23, 2013
    80
    The Malian singer Rokia Traoré has a gentle voice with a steely core, one that’s revealed more clearly than ever on Beautiful Africa.
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  3. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Apr 15, 2013
    80
    Rokia rocks, and it's a fine and bracing thing to hear.
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