Sketchy.
by tUnE-yArDs
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Mar 26, 2021
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
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  1. nehemias
    Mar 31, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the album is very identical to other albums of its style, nothing out of the ordinary… Expand

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82

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PopMatters
    Apr 16, 2021
    80
    Several songs address contemporary issues concerning race, personal responsibility, and generational guilt in oblique ways that make one think while having a groove on. It is meta-funk without the heavy bass and other genre tropes. The music is more experimental and strange, even while being rhythm-heavy. And the lyrics are avant-garde and innovative.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Apr 6, 2021
    80
    It's her incisive songwriting that makes her fifth LP a treat. [Apr 2021, p.73]
  3. Beats Per Minute
    Apr 1, 2021
    71
    sketchy. may not be their out-and-out best work, but it’s proof that they still have the guts and the songwriting ability — as well as their ever-present, obvious earnestness and candor — to do what endeared their work to so many in the first place.
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