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Jun 20, 2017As a breakup record City of No Reply is truly refreshing. It’s vulnerable without being either self-defeating or overly-aggressive and it’s both honest and warm, admitting blame without being overly-dramatic.
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Jun 2, 2017Easy on the ears, heartfelt, and subtly detailed, City of No Reply establishes Coffman as both an innovative and accessible artist.
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Jun 2, 2017The result is intriguing--an album about going it alone, that hasn’t entirely shaken its past.
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Jun 14, 2017Coffman doesn’t necessarily transcend the cornerstones she’s sampling on City of No Reply, but she’s not aiming to.
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Jun 2, 2017City Of No Reply is an album of stylistic hybrids. Coffman’s voice stitches all of these disparate influences together, at home among glistening neo-soul and phaser-pedal funk.
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Jun 15, 2017There is plenty to celebrate and admire about City of No Reply. Coffman’s pristine crooning fans the embers just enough to draw you in closer, and it takes no effort whatsoever to find an immense, relatable comfort in her lyrical coyness. The most frustrating letdown is not the quality of the songs themselves, but how they are unavoidably ensnared by production choices so at odds with their roots.
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Jun 6, 2017The brighter moments of the second half can be interesting, but never as achingly perfect as that opening stretch.
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Jun 2, 2017City of No Reply lacks enough energy to carry through to the end, which is not to say it doesn't contain some really rather brilliant standouts.
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MojoJun 27, 2017Her relaxed experimentation is more inviting than hearing Longstreth grind his axe. [Aug 2017, p.92]