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The album as a whole is bracingly unpredictable and persistently enjoyable; it’s an art-soul record for those who like to be challenged while they’re tapping their toes. Or vice versa.
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She remains musically mercurial and virtually unclassifiable, even if she is at her most accessible on Devil's Halo.
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It would seem that on this album, Ndegeocello is less concerned with how emotion strikes a person (be it love, pain, or sex), but how people relate to that emotion. And in the process she creates the tightest, most emotionally potent work she’s produced since Bitter.
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Q MagazineFor all the fraughness there are unpredictable but always apposite moments of beauty. [Jun 2010, p.128]
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Though not as sprawlingly ambitious or experimental as the 2007 "The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams," Meshell Ndegeocello's eighth release, "Devil's Halo," neatly straddles a line between challenging and accessible, with some of the tightest and catchiest compositions she's yet brought forth.
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UncutHer best album for many years illustrates her uniqueness. [Jun 2010, p.97]
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MojoLyrically her songs are as politically charged as ever, musically they're laboured experiments in style. [June 2010, p. 94]