• Record Label: Anti-
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2020
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. 80
    Find The Sun is an unsurprisingly great album from a curiously underappreciated artist, and an unassuming one at that. Deradoorian and her collaborators have made an album that fits the times, without knowing just how pertinent it would be.
  2. Sep 21, 2020
    80
    Her self-imposed solitude during its gestation period (she apparently spent 10 days in complete silence at a Vipassana retreat while writing) has led to a very introspective work that somehow still feels relatable.
  3. Sep 17, 2020
    80
    Find the Sun is an uncompromising record from an artist intent on mining further depths, one that finds the beauty in unease — and a sense of purpose in the darkness.
  4. Q Magazine
    Sep 15, 2020
    80
    The trajectory remains far-out, each track a space station on Deradoorian's exhilarating trip. [Jul 2020, p.106]
  5. Sep 15, 2020
    80
    What this album shows is what's allowed when an artist turns doubt into trust. There's humanity skating across this record, a collection of barely-touched ideas that allows listeners to float in place.
  6. Sep 24, 2020
    75
    Find the Sun can’t necessarily be described as a confident album, but its creator’s willingness to document her spiritual growth and present herself as vulnerable feels uniquely brave and honest.
  7. Sep 22, 2020
    75
    It’s less playful and more focused than her last full-length, 2015’s The Expanding Flower Planet, and the concept record suits her well. Any indie artist should start taking notes on how to construct such a complete statement. The rest of us now have a guidebook for an effective personal journey right when we need it most.
  8. Sep 21, 2020
    70
    Find the Sun is filled with insightful, poetic lyrics that reward attention, but the overall vibe of the album is best suited for a more meditative, perhaps semi-conscious state, allowing the sounds and rhythms to wash over you.
  9. Uncut
    Sep 15, 2020
    70
    A darkly urgent "Saturnine Night" and "The Illuminator" with its wood blocks and linear beat pattern set the tone, but as "Red Sky" with its meaty, psych-folk swing shows, it's not all out with the old. [Oct 2020, p.31]
  10. Mojo
    Sep 15, 2020
    60
    It doesn't work when she wails and chants her way through the closing Sun, but she's absolutely fearless, as rigorous as The Moody Blues circa Days Of Future Passed and as adventurous as Can circa Future Days. [Jul 2020, p.82]

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