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Jul 7, 2017It’s a confident, competent step forwards from a sure-footed talent, earning its repeat listens through mature considerations. And there will be repeat listens--just you try not to.
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Jul 7, 2017This is what pop should be in 2017: diverse, interesting and surprising.
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Jul 20, 2017Mura Masa’s nuance, confidence and obvious versatility betray his relative inexperience, and it’s increasingly clear that he is already a musical force to be reckoned with.
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Jul 17, 2017This is not a dark record, but one whose interstitial found sounds and international guest list celebrate Crossan’s adopted London.
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Jul 14, 2017This may be an album handcuffed to the zeitgeist, but it’s also bubbling with energy and ideas. Just imagine what Crossan could do if he ditched the marimbas.
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Jul 13, 2017The record never diverts from a tried-and-tested formula, but Crossan brings a modern touch via nifty production tricks and songwriting knacks.
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Jul 12, 2017Mura Masa has a world of instruments and sounds to draw on, and a confident craftsman’s sense of what to include and what to leave out. His songs also understand that no system can contain or predict the vagaries of the human heart.
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Jul 10, 2017Mura Masa isn’t perfect, with his production sometimes losing its identity to his guest stars, but it’s a solid and most importantly fun debut for a real rising star.
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Q MagazineJul 7, 2017Pure quality, from start to finish. [Aug 2017, p.109]
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Jul 18, 2017On his self-produced debut, Crossan works the city’s spidery Tube maps into an exhilarating electronic framework where the conflicting sounds of the modern-day Tower of Babel can harmoniously coexist.
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Jul 19, 2017Not every track leaves a major impression, but Mura Masa is still a quality effort from an ambitious, inventive producer.
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MojoJul 7, 2017Few of his collaborations stick or turn out to be more than the sum of their parts. [Aug 2017, p.88]
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Jul 31, 2017With two exceptions (Desiigner and, uh, Damon Albarn), the [guest artists] completely fail to elevate the tracks in any way, an unfortunate consequence of needing to feature Charli XCX on your album because she’s good and popular as hell rather than because you and Charli XCX have made any particularly interesting music together.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 47
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Mixed: 5 out of 47
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Negative: 2 out of 47
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