Negro Swan
by Blood Orange
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Aug 24, 2018
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 74 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 84
  3. Negative: 4 out of 84
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#73 Best Album of 2018
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#66 Most Shared Album of 2018

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Austin Chronicle
    Oct 5, 2018
    67
    Hynes 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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  2. No Ripcord
    Oct 1, 2018
    80
    Negro 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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  3. The Quietus
    Sep 24, 2018
    80
    Negro 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.
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