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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the British singer-songwriter was produced by Ben Hillier.
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- Record Label: Infectious
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 15
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Mixed: 0 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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MojoJun 24, 2020Shah's voice throughout is fantastic, carrying and castigating her listeners along with her, while her brilliant band nails radio-friendly rock, swirling 4AD-style gothic atmospheres, and perfect post-punk attack. [Jul 2020, p.82]
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Jun 25, 2020[An] excellent record: the guitars throughout the album are aggressive and sharp-edged, the bass is consistently robust and roaring, and rhythms are serpentine and oppressive - barely a moment goes by that you aren’t feeling Shah’s own claustrophobia, the weight of her own aging bearing down on your shoulders.
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UncutJun 24, 2020It's bolshy, uncompromising and demands to be played on repeat. [Aug 2020, p.36]
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Q MagazineJun 24, 2020Direct, alert, questing, it's a record that powerfully refuses to settle down. [Summer 2020, p.107]
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Jun 25, 2020Both playful and powerful in its delivery, ‘Kitchen Sink’ may be built around the challenges so many of us still face - and are angered by - on a near-daily basis, but it also offers a bit of light and - most importantly - liberating relief.
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Jun 29, 2020Kitchen Sink is an album that slowly charms its way into your conscience, and is all the more pleasing for that.
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Jul 20, 2020It may not come across as immediately ambitious as her previous work, but there are no tricks or gimmicks that create this intimacy; it’s just clever production and writing that never outstays its welcome.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Jul 26, 2020Arteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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