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Aug 3, 2017The giddy quality may stick more than do individual songs, but they succeed in capturing some of the wooziness of new love.
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Aug 3, 2017Call It Love is an enticing work, but despite its many pleasing qualities, it doesn't quite stand out from the oversaturated electronic dream-pop scene.
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Aug 3, 2017Call It Love, her fourth album, was a chance for the Seattle native to move further into synthpop substance, but the beautiful, luminescent prisms she resides in often fail to reach emotional ground.
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Aug 4, 2017The lack of anything like a pained or ecstatic voice in Call It Love can make its emotional core tricky to access. Instead of reading it in her voice, you have to read it in her lyrics and the environments in which she’s chosen to nestle them. That doesn’t detract from Call It Love’s prettiness.
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Aug 4, 2017This is a record that plays it safe musically, even as it probes uncomfortable emotional states and difficult experiences.
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UncutAug 3, 2017"Give Me Love" and "Last Time" may articulate different relationship stages, but are euphoric in their own ways. [Sep 2017, p.35]
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Aug 3, 2017Marela's exploration and experimentation as an artist will be key in sustaining what is hopefully a long career for this talent. However, it yields a follow-up release slightly less impressive than its predecessor.