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tUnE-yArDs
- Record Label: 4AD
- Release Date: Jan 19, 2018
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Jan 22, 2018The merger of a furrowed-brow intellect and hip-freeing rhythm has been a Tune-Yards constant since Garbus made her 2009 bedroom recording, “Bird-Brains.” I Can Feel you Creep into my Private Life is both more refined and yet more raw.
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Jan 19, 2018It may lack the punch of Nikki Nack, but for those willing to hang around and appreciate its jammier approach, it’s a cathartic, worthwhile stop along the Tune-Yards catalog.
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MagnetApr 17, 2018I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is merely very good. [No. 150, p.55]
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The WireFeb 23, 2018Thanks to Tune-Yards’ trademark genre splicing--demented nursery rhyme chanting, jerky rapping, tortured harmonising and stuttery 808 beats--Private Life shows there’s still space for playfulness amid the polemic. [Mar 218, p.55]
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Jan 29, 2018I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is a natural addition to the Tune-Yards catalog, a group of albums with songs so singular that practically every track seems like an evolution in the Tune-Yards sound.
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Jan 23, 2018Tune-Yards latest is a record dominated by the society it both critiques and is a part of.
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Jan 22, 2018No easy answers are found, but the new energy here suggests Honesty--the title of a standout techno’n’sax track--has set Tune-Yards free to keep asking.
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Jan 19, 2018She doesn't lash out at external forces. Instead, she internalizes that dialogue, resulting in her most contemplative album to date.
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Jan 19, 2018A vibrant album that explores the political and cultural tumult of the late 2010s with anthemic heft and individualistic perspectives.
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Jan 19, 2018It still has the eccentricities that make them such an intriguing band, but without compromising on these elements Tune-Yards have still made their most accessible, danceable and thought-provoking album to date.
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Jan 19, 2018I can feel you creep into my private life never feels worthy or didactic, partly because its component doubts and sorrows nonetheless conspire to a joyous union.
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Jan 18, 2018An LP determined to conjure kinetic joy while staring down our present cultural fright show--and which is more potent for it.
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Jan 18, 2018It occasionally makes you grit your teeth and wince, but far more often it makes you want to dance--and there’s something weirdly compelling about it all. Even when it misfires, it tells you something about the era we live in.
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Jan 18, 2018Tune-Yards might have taken a deep breath and a step back, allowing their infectious melodies some space, but their breathless skew-whiff eclecticism remains anything but safe.
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Jan 17, 2018Expanded to a duo by bassist Nate Brenner’s promotion to full-time accomplice of Merrill Garbus, Tune-Yards’ characteristically confrontational approach acquires a new brusque confidence on this fourth album.
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Jan 16, 2018Despite the seriousness of the lyrics, I can feel you creep into my private life manages to remain an uplifting album, with a collection of intricately-crafted pop songs that tackle a range of important current issues.
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Jan 16, 2018Cogent and catchy all at once, I can feel you creep into my private life shows that, even amid doubt and distress, Tune-Yards can find a new way forward.
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Jan 16, 2018While there are some tracks that feel like the duo have worn themselves out, points at which the album can support neither its stubbornly fusion-pop soul nor its lyrical depth, for the most part it shines.
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Jan 5, 2018It's as much fun as it needs to be--as it should be. Reflective, restless, fiercely engaged, it feels like it's in constant process of rethinking and remodeling, slicing off bits of musical flesh and slapping them back on elsewhere as it dips and bounces along the street. [Feb 2018, p.94]
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Jan 5, 2018It's an entertainingly disruptive blast of a record with a mirrorball lure, refracting everything from Motown to early-'80s disco and funk, boom bap, '90s piano house and contemporary R&B Yet nothing is stripped of its oddness or playfulness. [Feb 2018, p.33]
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Jan 5, 2018Pinballing between modern fright and fervent fight, I Can Feel You... exults in the thrill of self-determined discovery.
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Feb 14, 2018Her sound is a junksale of clutter and certified gems. I can feel you… is her most sonically sharp weapon to date, and full of plenty to get excited about if you rifle through it.
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Feb 5, 2018I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life doesn’t quite hit the immense heights of her first two albums, but this is still Merrill Garbus doing her own thing--which is something that’s always worth paying attention to.
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Jan 22, 2018Suffice it to say that Private Life is as socially conscious as albums come. It can also be a slog to get through.
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Jan 16, 2018Successful forays into synth-disco (‘Look At Your Hands’), slo-mo new wave (‘Coast To Coast’) and hymnal R&B (‘Home’) rescue a uniquely energetic, smart record in danger of over-saturation.
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Jan 23, 2018It’s frequently a difficult listen, and not for the reasons Garbus intended.
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Feb 28, 2018On the whole, I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is a truly good album and a number of the songs on it are notable successes, but the stark shift in sonic style sets it apart from the rest of Tune-Yards' discography and not in a good way. It seems safe, it seems almost timid at times.
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Jan 25, 2018When it works, it’s as joyful as the best Tune-Yards songs. ... Given her soaring delivery elsewhere, the talk-sung ABC 123 and Now As Then fall flat in comparison, and the reliance on 808s feels a tad dated for a group lauded for their innovative production.
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Q MagazineJan 5, 2018Despite operating in the between-floors world of indie R&B, it connects both sonically and melodically and as such engages the listener rather than, as in the past, totally overwhelming them. [Feb 2018, p.116]
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Feb 7, 2018It changes the sounds of the band from the bombastic elastic to the crouched minor. It changes the hopes of the band from boundless to restrictive. It limps, self-conscious and careful.
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Jan 25, 2018Only a third of the album works. Obscure, seemingly unfinished, and nattering, this is Tune-Yards’ weakest album to date at a moment when Garbus, distrusting her music’s ability to explain itself, doesn’t need the slings and arrows.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 57
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Mixed: 16 out of 57
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Negative: 0 out of 57
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Jan 22, 2018
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Jan 20, 2018Really good album. Probably their best. The beats and vocals are really amazing. The bass is really good and the lyrics are quite satisfying as well.
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Dec 15, 2020