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Jan 19, 2018While Encore may falter here and there from excessive studio production, the album holds up as an overall product, one that implies how tight East and his band would be live.
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Jan 11, 2018If he sometimes sounds like he leans too hard into his rasp, this vocal tic is mitigated by those songwriting skills and the supple sound of Cobb's production, elements that turn Encore into a minor gem.
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Jan 10, 2018The songs are terrific, East sells them with his gritty, committed vocals and Encore is poised to push the talented singer-songwriter over the top and into the mainstream.
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Jan 10, 2018East has such a commanding presence that anything he does is bound to be a triumph of performance, but Encore is also a master class in arrangement. ... The album’s original material is slightly less memorable, if only because the lyrics sometimes trend toward the generic.
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Jan 10, 2018Encore, his second major-label album, is an often lustrous revisiting of raucous Southern soul, rousingly delivered and pinpoint precise. He has a voice full of extremely careful scrape and crunch, but his howls never feel unhinged.
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Jan 12, 2018There’s still more than enough fuel in Encore’s tank to heartily recommend it. I’m just waiting for him to dare a leap into the unknown.
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UncutJan 10, 2018[His] voice bulldozes everything in its path, flattening melody and obliterating nearly every sentiment on this overzealous album. [Feb 2018, p.24]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Apr 24, 2018