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  • Summary: The full-length debut for the Berlin-based electronic artist features guest appearances from Suad Khalifa and Sonja Immonen.
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  • Record Label: Weird World
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Neo-Psychedelia, Chillwave
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  1. Jul 23, 2015
    80
    Kalevi's debut is an exquisitely unusual amalgamation of heavy-lidded grooves, moody atmospherics, and upbeat, carefree-sounding weirdness that you can't quite put your finger on but also can't stop listening to.
  2. Jun 22, 2015
    80
    With layer upon layer of vocal, groove, and percussion, Jaakko Eino Kalevi is a reminder that pop can be both for your head and your feet.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jul 1, 2015
    80
    He's starting to look like someone who an no longer be held by the confines of his own skull. [Aug 2015, p.109]
  4. 70
    War On Drugs engineer Nicolas Vernhes smoothes restrained standouts ‘Don’t Ask Me Why’ and ‘Room’ into two of Kalevi’s best songs yet, but the whole thing bathes in glorious groove.
  5. Jun 30, 2015
    70
    A bit of a grower, Jaakko Eino Kalevi is a subtly enticing album that establishes his niche within experimental pop.
  6. Uncut
    Jun 22, 2015
    70
    His vocal lines are often so casually intoned that they mingle imperceptibly with those of his back-up singer Suad Khalifa, over gently pulsing twilight liaisons that yearn to be a little more sophisticated than they actually are. [Jul 2015, p.77]
  7. Jun 22, 2015
    69
    Kalevi speaks softly but moves boldly, and Jaakko Eino Kalevi feels like a refinement of his own unique spirit.

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