They're Calling Me Home
by Rhiannon Giddens
  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Apr 9, 2021
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. jimlaw
    Apr 12, 2022
    10
    Beautiful music. Soulful and honest. Minimal yet masterful production and musicianship. 5*

Awards & Rankings

14
#14 Best Album of 2021

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Metascore
89

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. PopMatters
    May 19, 2021
    80
    They’re Calling Me Home memorializes and breathes new life into a set of songs that feel familiar and entirely unexpected.
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  2. The Guardian
    Apr 16, 2021
    100
    This is a big, beautiful album, a showcase for direct, punchy emotions and Giddens’ vocal versatility. She trained as an opera singer and executes astonishing levels of beauty and control on Monteverdi’s Si Dolce è’l Tormento and When I Was in My Prime, a folk song previously covered by Pentangle and Nina Simone.
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  3. Mojo
    Apr 15, 2021
    80
    The pair's musical chemistry is a potent one. [May 2021, p.78]
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