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Jan 22, 2015The touchstones here, such as Dusty in Memphis, are all records that revel in a particular kind of musicality, yet this is a record that never feels retro, just timeless.
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Jan 22, 2015This is music inspired by what you remember hearing as a kid from your parents’ and grandparents’ record collections, but it’s been made fresh and totally original again.
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Feb 24, 2015The rich production and ambitious, multi-faceted arrangements provided by White’s Spacebomb crew are the perfect foil for Prass’s soft, exquisite voice and expressive, tear-stained songs, such that the overwhelming impression of the LP is, against the odds, one of triumph; of beauty both wrangled out of and amplified immeasurably by loss.
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Feb 2, 2015Prass' stunning self-titled debut has been a long time coming.
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Jan 26, 2015The most wonderful, positive ending, a paean to the power of song and the song that closes this modern classic of an album.
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Jan 26, 2015Given the expressions of vulnerability and exploration of heartache here, this album has had timely release. It makes for a glorious companion to Björk’s Vulnicura but also stands as a confident, masterly debut album in its own right.
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Jan 27, 2015After just a nine-song introduction, we care about Natalie Prass.
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Feb 10, 2015Hats off to this fantastic singer-songwriter for not only emerging from the fog so quickly, but also for crafting a dynamic album that is bigger than its size and very deserving of the praise it will undoubtedly receive.
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Jan 27, 2015What makes it good is her sophisticated ear for pop arrangements. What sets it apart is her gracefully authoritative, hyper-emotive, and at times semi-animal personality brought out through a masterfully controlled and gloriously weird set of pipes.
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Jan 26, 2015A warm, intimate debut album that leaves space for darker contemplation—those stray thoughts that light you up at the end of the night.
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Feb 9, 2015This dream of an album sounds like little else currently in the pop field, and the fact that it’s a debut from a relative newcomer makes it even more impressive.
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Feb 3, 2015While the tracks rarely challenge the listener with bold experimentation or chord progressions that range much beyond major-and-minor resolves, Natalie Prass provides a concise amalgamation of R&B, funk, baroque pop, and soul with a consistent through-line.
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Feb 3, 2015Her eye for telling romantic details and gift for gorgeous, lilting melodies mean this debut sinks its hooks in deep and soon seems to belong alongside the classics it so plainly resembles.
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MojoFeb 2, 2015Natalie Prass's debut luxuriates in the same effortlessly timeless space as Rumer's Seasons Of My Life and I Am Shelby Lynne. [Feb 2015, p.94]
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Jan 29, 2015The slower, sentimental ballads can veer into maudlin territory, and the spoken-word Reprise seems utterly unnecessary, but such minor missteps are easily overlooked when the rest is such a satisfying listen.
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Jan 26, 2015Natalie Prass is a beautiful record that does best when it prods the sweet ache of failed romance.
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Jan 26, 2015The thrush-like Natalie Prass, 28, has written a heartbreak album that reminds you why such albums are so wonderful and necessary in the first place.
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Q MagazineJan 23, 2015It's a record that announces its creator as a true force. [Feb 2015, p.113]
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Jan 23, 2015Prass confirms her unique, tremulous contralto mining depths of despairing devotion on songs clearly triggered by romantic crisis.
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UncutJan 22, 2015It is ambitious music, even compared with Big Inner and it also sounds rich with potential. [Feb 2015, p.67]
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Feb 11, 2015Natalie Prass shows she’s got the complex stuff down pat, but getting back to the basics might be the next stage of development that takes her to another level.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 60 out of 71
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Mixed: 8 out of 71
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Negative: 3 out of 71
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