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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release for New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla was inspired in part by the history of Radio Haiti.
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- Record Label: Anti-
- Genre(s): Folk
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UncutMay 3, 2022The album never becomes a dry documentary, though, because the music adopts the station’s spirit of dissent and subversion. [Jun 2022, p.31]
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May 3, 2022An ambitious, accomplished piece of work.
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May 3, 2022The album mixes Creole vocals with English, the latter in Caetano Veloso’s Brazilian song of exile “You Don’t Know Me,” one of several examples of beauty to offset the anger and angst.
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MojoMay 3, 2022An exquisite distillation of hope and perseverance, mystery and humanity. [Jun 2022, p.87]
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May 6, 2022Breaking the Thermometer is a reminder of the album as a statement, a covenant between artist and listener to intentional and attentional communion. Leyla McCalla’s profound creativity asks for such attention in his album and richly rewards it.
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