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- Summary: The second full-length release for Lorely Rodriguez features contributions from Blood Orange's Dev Hynes, DJDS, and Pional.
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- Record Label: Terrible
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Q MagazineOct 23, 2018It's full of compact songs that steal your heart and leave. [Dec 2018, p.107]
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Oct 22, 2018Considerably brighter, both thematically and tonally, than its predecessor, the album ascertains the guileless exhilaration of love.
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Oct 22, 2018Empress Of takes listeners into a rich sonic environment on Us, while placing careful emphasis on the emotional territory she ventures into. The universality Rodriguez has sought to embody the record with is present, yet the vulnerability she is known for remains.
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Oct 19, 2018An endearing, and wholesome end for an album so wonderfully content it it’s own bubble.
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Oct 24, 2018Though there are hints of doubt and yearnful ambiguity associated with detachment and abandonment, littered throughout, Us is a project album radiating with friendship and the comfort of simply being next to someone.
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Oct 19, 2018Where it differs from the debut is in lyrics that are heartfelt but deliberately less personal than Me.
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Oct 25, 2018Us struggles to consistently reach the vertiginous heights of “When I’m With Him” or Me, but at the album’s best, Rodriguez’s revealing narratives of fractured relationships and lonely adolescence strike somewhere deep, to the point that, if you listen close enough, her warm, whispery voice almost begins to sound like your own.
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Oct 21, 2018A truly incredible album, blew my mind. Lorely outdid herself, and I couldn’t be prouder, been following her for a while now.
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Oct 20, 2018
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Nov 2, 2018This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 8, 2019
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