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Sep 19, 2016If Pale Fire read like a dream, KoKoro reads like a worldly, real-life adventure.
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The WireNov 8, 2016Its exploratory, playful, even mystical temper, slipping easily between the emotional zones the history of song traverses, suggests a boredom with eschatology. [Oct 2016, p.55]
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Oct 11, 2016Unusual, refreshing and vulnerable KoKoro is an album inspired by the political, environmental and the human conscious.
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UncutSep 23, 2016The sound is brighter and bolder. [Nov 2016, p.26]
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Sep 19, 2016Kokoro is a small but significant treasure that is full of compassion, and the so-called ‘selfie’ generation would do well to pay heed to it.
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Sep 19, 2016The only way to respond to the sourpusses is to ensure the music is very, very good, something that KoKoro can more than justifiably claim.
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Sep 19, 2016Assbring's discovery of the world of sounds, and the inspiration it gave her, has helped provide El Perro del Mar with a stunning upgrade, and KoKoro stands as one of the best works of her already pretty great career.
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Sep 19, 2016KoKoro isn’t perfect, but Assbring’s knack for creating well-written, catchy melodies carries the record it even in its slightest moments and a huge step forward from Pale Fire, positioning El Perro Del Mar well for an interesting Act II as a modern world pop purveyor.
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Oct 17, 2016Every musical detour she takes on KoKoro sounds carefully plotted, and though it may occasionally wander without a clear center, it hardly lessens her severe case of wanderlust.
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Sep 23, 2016The LP expands her sound, but it does little to wrench her out of the darker-shade-of-twee headspace where she’s resided for years.