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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Los Angeles-based experimental artist Claire Rousay features guest appearances by Hand Habits and Lala Lala.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Apr 18, 2024sentiment is the work of someone who understands that emotions are a full-body experience, and rousay’s work responds with a sensory palette beyond what a typical song can muster. Does it devastate? Sometimes. Above all else, this little archive of rousay’s emotions cancels the distractions outside and sinks you in a bath of feeling. The best response is to ease in.
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Apr 18, 2024Every track on sentiment feels like a late-night phone call from a close friend; when the album stops, you find yourself missing the voice on the other end.
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UncutApr 18, 2024A record that is quietly powerful in its delicate yet emotional execution. [May 2024, p.39]
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Apr 22, 2024Sentiment is a place to jump right into her sonic world, with a proper pop pace: 10 songs in 37 minutes. The indie-rock tunes mix with orchestral interludes, synth drones, field recordings, found sounds from nature or the city streets, all full of raw emotion.
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Apr 29, 2024Enriching yet austere, its methodology seems to embody the title of a previous Claire Rousay song: ‘everything perfect is already here’.
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Apr 24, 2024Channeling avant-garde techniques into melancholic folk-pop produces an album of tremendous psychological and emotional complexity, where the interior world is—even at its most desolate—full of vibrant, complicated life.
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Apr 18, 2024There is unquestionable bravery in the access and vulnerability that sentiment communicates, and the journey into pop music is yet another promising step in rousay's always-morphing development.