- Band Name: Jessy Lanza
- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Release Date: Sep 17, 2013
- Summary: Co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan, the debut full-length release for Canadian music teacher-turned R&B singer includes influences from funk, jazz, and synth pop.
- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Genre(s): Electronic, Downtempo, Indie Electronic, Alternative R&B
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Sep 20, 201390It's this combination of shadowy unknowability and full-hearted melody that makes Pull My Hair Back such an intriguing listen, and certainly one of the year's best debuts.
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Sep 20, 201390Whilst it obviously won’t be eligible for the Mercury Music Prize on the basis of nationality, this compelling, rigorous and often beautiful work ought to receive the same level of attention as Jessie Ware’s debut.
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Sep 20, 201380There's arguably nothing groundbreaking about Pull My Hair Back, but its artful combination of influences, subtle production, and the ambiguous emotional terrain it covers makes it one of the strongest debuts of the year.
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Sep 20, 201380Pull My Hair Back still shines with nonsensical warmth that is just as much sensual as strange. Kathy Lee would be proud.
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Sep 20, 201380She's compelling throughout, and has a diffident, aloof sexiness that makes the record intriguing and accessible.
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Oct 16, 201380This album is as comfortable with skittery beats and strikingly artful arrangements as it is with acid throb and super-sensual disco shudder. [Nov 2013, p.111]
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Sep 20, 201370It makes for an excellent debut in whatever style you want to call it.
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