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Mar 4, 2016She braids her voice, bass strings, and percussions together to create whole conversations.
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Jun 2, 2016Swapping sixth form studies for her real passion of singing, writing and producing music, the 19-year-old’s mature debut is an autobiographical “art project”.
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Mar 9, 2016The weakest tracks--the hackneyed anthem Love Is Blind, the dreary Hurt Me--are the most radio-friendly and interrupt the album's flow. But that's not a major drawback. In fact, for many new artists, either track would be a high-water mark.
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Mar 4, 2016At 47 minutes, Long Way Home may seem lengthy for a debut, but it feels cohesive without boxing Låpsley into a limited sound.
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Mar 4, 2016Long Way Home is a vindication of all that time spent slowly learning her craft and doing almost everything herself. As a result, she has finally delivered what all those early tracks promised; a bedroom record conceived in the club that drags confessional pop music further into the future.
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Mar 3, 2016On Long Way Home, she delivers these in spades.
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Q MagazineMar 2, 2016The album comes to life with the radio-friendly, dancefloor-ready banger Operator (He Doesn't Call Me), but only one track, Love Is Blind, errs on the side of the saccharine and straightforward. [Apr 2016, p.109]
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Mar 2, 2016Låpsley has expressed a fondness for writing sad songs, and while there's a pervasive melancholy to Long Way Home, it remains both accessible and sonically explorative throughout.
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Mar 2, 2016Though she’s on the edge of slipping into Adele-esque poperatics, this is a bold and confident first LP from a producer--and singer--with great potential.
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Mar 3, 2016Låpsley’s technical abilities are not to be questioned; her stamp is all over this album’s production, and her sonic impulses rarely stray far from “on point.” But when her heart starts to catch up with her head, as it does intermittently on Long Way Home, whoo boy: Watch out.
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Apr 4, 2016For now, she’s created an unimpeachably well-crafted debut--something to gaze at, even if it is just a sequence of gazes itself.
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Apr 1, 2016Låpsley is nothing if not diverse, but she manages to retain a bespoke, trademark sound throughout Long Way Home.
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Mar 10, 2016It’s these minimal moments of Long Way Home that work best.
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Mar 2, 2016If not a break-up album, a dreading-breaking-up album whose pace, palette, minor chords, and Låpsley's disquieted vocal performances all collaborate for a debut that's impressively locked into a distinct head space.
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Mar 11, 2016The unusual dependence on space in the arrangements can make the interiors of Låpsley’s songs seem uncannily empty, glassy structures with their insides removed so all that’s left is angled crystal.... But in other instances her voice dissolves into an overabundance of negative space, and listening to the less-inspired sections of Long Way Home can feel like trying to remember something boring that happened to you once.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 2 out of 32
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Mar 9, 2016
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