One Second of Love - Nite Jewel
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  • Summary: The latest album from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Ramona Gonzales is her first release on the Secretly Canadian label.
  • Record Label: Secretly Canadian
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. 83
    Her latest clears the air with crisper production and subtle, synthy R&B swagger. [23 Mar 2012, p.74]
  2. Mar 16, 2012
    80
    One Second of Love is arresting from the outset, Gonzalez's airily velveteen vocals cascading in with a similar invitingly icy inflection to St Vincent on Surgeon while luscious, Eyes Without a Face-esque keyboard washes burble by on their way to a skippily abrupt, if recoverable, meltdown.
  3. Jun 6, 2012
    80
    Early music is fascinating to people in a way that goes deeper than anything else, and for musicians and artists, all those early things spill out in the things we make. Gonzalez does that here in a fun and remarkable way.
  4. Mar 26, 2012
    60
    The rest of the album can't match that evocative pang on [best track No I Don't]--something like hot coals against cyborg flesh--and is generally more direct.

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Score distribution:
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  1. Nita's Jewel "One Second of Love" is an album as uneven as its title track. There is potential, but still something is not right. Vocals do not always fit into tight electronic backing which prevails, pushing the instrumental sections on the back burner. Fortunately, the album has its good points, which are more subdued compositions such as "Sister", or minimalist "Unearthly Delights". Expand