- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2023
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Sep 29, 2023Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden's collision of styles, genres, and individual and group voices are not only welcome, but essential to the process of Roberts engendering dialogue, celebrating difference, and communicating emotions, psychologies, and cultures, all testifying to the import and cultural and artistic achievement of her evolving project.
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Nov 13, 2023The balance of spoken word and music is well-conceived. .... Less than halfway through, the Coin Coin series is engaging and ever new.
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Sep 26, 2023Each of these tracks effortlessly conjures the swirling feeling of needing to make a decision – and questioning your own being – never quite settling, always moving.
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MojoSep 25, 2023Her jazziest yet, expressive alto-sax and hypnotic spoken words ladle emotional gravitas onto its fevered meditations and splintered storytelling. [Nov 2023, p.94]
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The WireSep 25, 2023An account of stifling domesticity plays out over a propulsive 4/4 rock beat and swirling woodwinds, which serve to evoke how, in spite of everything, she felt “electric, alive, spirited, fire and free”. .... Testament to the subterranean efforts to prevent this woman’s story from being forgotten. [Oct 2023, p.52]
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Sep 25, 2023The pieces as a whole feel fuller, and more ambitious than anything Roberts has done to date. It marks another stunning development in a series that remains essential listening.
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UncutSep 25, 2023The album is tethered by Roberts' spoken-word poetry. [Oct 2023, p.33]
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