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Apr 21, 2016As with so much African music, Né So favors hope over despair, proud defiance over inchoate anger, and stands as the most trenchant portrait of the African musical spirit so far this year.
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MojoFeb 22, 2016Ne So is a thing of delicacy, it's a silky, immersive grooves and intertwined guitars weaving a subtly seductive canvas against which Traore's smoky vocals, often couched in close harmonies, waft. [Apr 2016, p.92]
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Feb 16, 2016Traoré’s vocals remain smooth, agile and sometimes challenging.
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UncutFeb 11, 2016Brave, challenging and arrestingly original. [Mar 2016, p.79]
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Feb 11, 2016The sound on this pivotal sixth album, however, is subdued, moody, even dark at times, the instrumentation stripped back to bare essentials.
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Feb 11, 2016With Né So, Traoré feels completely dialed in and in control, delivering her most compelling record yet.
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Feb 11, 2016Other highlights, such as the Ngoni-driven Kenia, the desert blues of Tu Voles and an atmospheric take on Nina Simone’s haunting lament Strange Fruit confirm that she is an artist still very much at the top of her game.
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Feb 11, 2016Less commercial than her last album, maybe, but it’s a finely sung, pained and intimate set.
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Apr 25, 2016Traoré is never a showy singer. But her subtlety and quiet intensity, and her way of digging deep into a groove, make her a consistently captivating one.
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Feb 16, 2016Most of the textural differences from song to song on Né So are slight, so they tend to bleed into one another.