Mirrorwriting - Jamie Woon
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  • Summary: The debut full-length album for the British R&B singer who graduated from the same infamous Brit School as Adele and Amy Winehouse was produced with Will Bevan (aka Burial) and Royce Wood, Jr.
  • Record Label: Verve
  • Genre(s): Electronic, R&B, Downtempo, Contemporary R&B, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
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  1. BBC Music
    Apr 25, 2011
    80
    This first album have produced something so beguiling, it's clearly been time well spent.
  2. No Ripcord
    May 25, 2011
    80
    With it's at times blissfully understated cool Mirrorwriting confirms Woon as a man capable of a making truly remarkable music, the sort of music that makes it clear what a miraculous triviality it is to turn on a record and let it spin.
  3. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Apr 25, 2011
    80
    Woon's work is unashamedly bucolic (he writes songs about going for a walk) and beat-literate (he's worked with Burial), and his tremulous, medieval folk singer voice makes it perfectly bearable.
  4. Q Magazine
    May 31, 2011
    60
    A quietly accomplished record, just not the one people were expecting. [Jun 2011, p.125]
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  1. Hackskeptic
    5
    The expected infiltration of dubstep into mainstream music has took a while, but 2011 has seen a marked increase in pop acts turning to atmospheric alternative beats to showcase their music. Jamie Woon is a traditional R&B singer who has turned to contemporary developmental shifts, the same way Kenny Thomas used Acid Jazz in the early 90s, and Craig David, who was heavily influenced by UK garage at the turn of the century. Woon's debut collection is a relative disappointment in that it kicks off with an outstanding single ("Night Air"), and then drifts along with wishy washy compositions that become tepid musical fashion statements and lack any lasting relevance. The attention to detail that's given to designing, manipulating and engineering this production simply can't overcome the severe lack of memorable tunes, resulting in a melee of indistinguishable creations. Woon is a decent enough singer, but too often his silky input becomes cold and unemotional, drained by competition with the shapes that surround him.
    One superb single and eleven inconsequential slabs of filler; one soon realises that "Mirrorwriting" is all show and little substance. It's not awful, just fashionable and very, very flat.
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