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Mar 6, 2012One Second of Love's main issue is not one of sonic fidelity, but consistency. If the murk of earlier recordings hid some of Nite Jewel's intentions, they also succeeded in hiding slightly forced stylistic leanings.
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Oct 30, 2012Instead of ebullience, the disc finds footing in the hard lessons of romantic realism.
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Mar 16, 2012One 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.
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Mar 6, 2012For a record of such minimalist production as this, the latest from LA's Ramona Gonzalez, a.k.a. Nite Jewel, it's surprising how much genre ground can be covered.
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Mar 8, 2012One Second Of Love is a remarkably bold move for the young singer, and when it clicks, the results are irresistible.
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Mar 5, 2012Does it all work? No, but the results are uniformly intriguing.
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Jun 6, 2012Early 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.
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Entertainment WeeklyMar 16, 2012Her latest clears the air with crisper production and subtle, synthy R&B swagger. [23 Mar 2012, p.74]
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Mar 6, 2012It's very difficult not to like these songs--for their clarity and craftmanship, but also the strength of their ideas.
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Mar 8, 2012What's great about the record is the transformative effect of art school meeting R&B.
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Mar 6, 2012Sometimes Nite Jewel's music feels so controlled, you can't help but wonder what would happen if she'd lose her head for not just one second, but one minute or more.
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Jun 6, 2012Nite Jewel has blossomed into a something not too far removed from a genuine pop star. Yet you feel One Second Of Love is a promising step forward rather than the finished article.
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Mar 5, 2012Flash-forward to two years later and we get One Second of Love, which finds Gonzalez maturing into a graceful songstress without entirely abandoning what inspired her in the first place.
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Mar 5, 2012In the end, One Second of Love is enjoyable but slight: its stronger moments render the weaker ones particularly forgettable.
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Mar 6, 2012Above all, One Second Of Love is a triumph of atmospherics and arrangements.
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Mar 5, 2012Gonzalez is more fun when she's trying to be challenging than when she's trying to be fun.
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Mar 6, 2012One Second of Love is artfully crafted.
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Mar 5, 2012She's found a strong, vibrato-less voice that's confident but imperfect in funny ways.
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Mar 5, 2012Gonzalez' voice is beautiful, but it doesn't have the emphatic uniqueness to carry the album on its own, while the songwriting, though producing gems like the EBTG-esque, understated "Mind & Eyes" is just uneven enough to fade occasionally into the background.
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UncutMar 14, 2012A set of pristine ballads that veer somewhere between the atmospheric folk of Suzanne Vega and Sade's austere pop-soul. [Apr 2012, p.83]