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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 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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May 21, 2024Sentiment is a deeply melancholic work suffused with a gentle beauty in the emotions Claire Rousay expresses in the lyrics and the ambient delights that the music provides. The outcome is partially surprising, given the context of Rousay’s previous efforts, but a warm, welcome surprise.
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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.