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Feb 3, 2014Assured and still in thrall to the spinning lights, Little Red confidently and unpretentiously reflects Katy B’s transition from eager young clubber with a curfew to a mature young woman with a home of her own and the ability to hold a little something in reserve.
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Feb 4, 2014Rarely does a single album capture so much of what's right in a country's current moment in pop music.
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Feb 7, 2014Brien and Geeneus have turned in a finessed and involving convergence between dance and pop that mixes timeless songwriting with an energized and gutsy production.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014The singer hits new highs and broadens her pop horizons. [Mar 2014, p.118]
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musicOMH.comFeb 10, 2014While her debut On A Mission was a bold hashing-together of genres, equal parts R&B-feels and electro bombast, Little Red rides a comparatively low tidal ebb. But there’s more than enough here to suggest Katy B will be bringing the tunes a while yet.
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Feb 10, 2014It always felt like the UK dance community was collectively cheering for Katy B's success, and Little Red shows how much she deserves it.
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Feb 7, 2014In short, this album holds together even better than On a Mission, and Katy B is still our best pop star.
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Feb 4, 2014Little Red showcases her vivid R&B songwriting over chic, chilly electro beats.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014Katy B weaves various threads of London clubland into glittering pop flax, and this second LP is a triumphant consolidation of her position as the voice of nocturnal youth. [Mar 2014, p.78]
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Feb 3, 2014This time around, she delivers more of the same: tracks for the club with a sense of restraint and melancholy, as well as a poppy accessibility.
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Feb 3, 2014Little Red should rightly see Katy B cement her ascent to the stratosphere, joining the rest of dance music’s glitterati.
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Feb 3, 2014It's an assured album that utilises everything Katy B has going for her, from her love of clubbing to her BRIT School trained voice which is both bewitching and relatable.
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Feb 25, 2014Wether or not Little Red is better than On A Mission is up for debate; the former is a much more consistent and even listen, but the latter features much higher highs and lower lows.
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Feb 10, 2014Little Red is not the best album it could have been--a few of the bonus tracks should have made the album proper--but Katy displays a vision for her career that suggests an exciting future.
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Feb 7, 2014What she’s given us, here, is an album that sustains the energy of the party while prioritizing the real, complicated human feelings in the middle of it all. It’s quite something.
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Apr 1, 2014In the wake of crossover dance acts who scored after the success of On a Mission, Katy B remains in a class of her own.
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Feb 18, 2014Little Red allows Katy the chance to be afraid of her feelings, or at least afraid of being guided by them. And that happens a lot more often and is reflected by the contradictions between the message and the music.
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Feb 18, 2014While songs like '5AM' and 'Aaliyah' are very much made with mainstream dancefloors in their peripheral vision, much of the album, particularly some of the supplementary tracks, are still steeped very much in underground dance culture, and its in these moments that the album really excels.
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Feb 11, 2014The lack of a hefty, definable, or easily digestible pop overhaul here means that Little Red probably won’t hit America as hard as even its predecessor did. But it does feel like the natural progression of an artist whose narrative is so wholly and convincingly embedded in club life.
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Feb 4, 2014Genuinely, it’s the lyrics that are stopping Little Red from being properly brilliant.
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Mar 6, 2014While there’s glimpses of the magic that listeners heard oozing through On A Mission it doesn’t pervade Little Red.
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Feb 13, 2014Although it may not sound as groundbreaking as its predecessor, Little Red’s introspection-on-the-dancefloor theme is fascinating enough to sustain multiple records.
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Feb 10, 2014The ballads will be the tracks from Little Red to own the charts for the foreseeable future, but it’s on the 5am dancefloor that Katy B’s second album will score its biggest impact.
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Feb 10, 2014The real trouble is, the latter half of Little Red trickles away without catching at your heels overmuch, as though Katy B's fretting about feelings outweighs the joy of keeping moving with the lights on.
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Feb 6, 2014In making a more personal record, Katy B has somehow ended up putting less of Katy B on it.
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Feb 3, 2014Little Red’s desire to tread new ground is admirable and, in principle, the idea of Katy going head-to-head with US r’n’b singers is great, but the quality is simply not as dynamic, hook-laden or convincing as the first five songs.
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Feb 11, 2014For now, Little Red stands as an example of what happens when the zeitgeist leaves you behind.
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Feb 7, 2014The only new aspect of this follow-up to 2011’s On a Mission is her transatlantic phrasing; otherwise, it’s pretty much the same old thing, with pulsing dubstep synths relentlessly driving things to the lowest common denominator.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 45 out of 49
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Mixed: 4 out of 49
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Negative: 0 out of 49
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