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Jan 25, 201390Complete and correct, Goldenheart is a triumph.
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Jan 30, 201360Goldenheart functions as a hypnotic aural distraction, but little more.
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Jan 17, 201380While some of her melodies could be a bit more defined, she's a nuanced enough performer to captivate at the most self-indulgent of times.
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Jan 23, 201373It's not perfect, but it's closer than you'd expect from someone who just a few years ago was a member of a C-list girl group.
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Jan 17, 201360Richard is a talented artist, and her musical palette and tenacious personality remain consistently interesting, but when it comes to conveying emotion, falls back on the same tired tropes that have made many conventional R&B acts feel so exhaustingly familiar.
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Jan 17, 201380Yet even minus narrative detail or plot points, one surrenders to the logic of Richard's world, thanks to the modernist sheen holding the entire suite-like venture together, a voracious and melodic urban contemporary sound referencing 1980s pop as much as house or electro.
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Jan 17, 2013100Goldenheart is dazzling and imperious.
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Jan 28, 201350The results have been slow and messy and atmospheric, full of contemporary R&B's customary ingredients (virtual strings, AutoTune, gold-plated emotion) but stretched out, heavy on atmosphere, light on hooks.
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Feb 12, 201390It's ambitious, personal, unusual and, crucially, touched with brilliance.
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6I hear a lot of potential here. The production, themes and vocals are spectacular but the lyrics, melodies and overall delivery needs to be worked on.