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Universal acclaim- based on 84 Ratings
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Positive: 74 out of 84
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Mixed: 6 out of 84
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Negative: 4 out of 84
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Sep 10, 2018This is a rich and rewarding listen, has its own sense of humor, purpose and identity as well. It's also a challenging listen. The only quibble I have (Not a detraction, just personal) is some of the spoken word book-ends on some of the tracks kind of take away from the experience. Overall it's a strong recommend though.
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Sep 9, 2018Amazing album with perfect production and performances one of the best albums of the year so far!!!
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Nov 15, 2018_____ The music of Devonte Hynes is always some kind of inexplicable magic. So much light and charm in it ... and this is absolutely without exaggeration.
_____ And how does this person turn from one album to another to create such musical wonders? I think that this is one simple explanation: his music is not "squeezed out of the finger," but comes from the soul.
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Oct 5, 2018Hynes creates a jazzy respite for the marginalized by brimming Negro Swan with horns, synth, and guitar even if only for an hour.
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Oct 1, 2018Negro Swan is another sure-footed step forward. It’s rare that an artist can operate within the pop template, collaborate with household names and still produce work that can be considered as significantly culturally important, but that’s what Hynes manages.
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Sep 24, 2018Negro Swan feels like a collection of personal and cultural traumatic memories, and it also feels like an embrace--a call for young queer people of colour to have hope, feel beautiful, and be filled all the way up.