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- Summary: The debut album from Leon "Scratcha DVA" Smart features guest appearances by Natalie Maddix, Muhsinah, A.L. Zaki Ibrahim, Vikter Duplaix, Fatima, and Cornelia.
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- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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Q MagazineApr 2, 2012DVA's full-length debut Pretty Ugly feels more late night than early morning, cutting a swathe through dubstep, future soul and jittery electronica. [Apr 2012, p.98]
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Mar 20, 2012It's rare an album creates a world so weird yet so coherent and absorbingly musical, but DVA has done it here; the only reasonable response is to take a deep breath and dive in.
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MojoMar 23, 2012Soulful, moving music. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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Mar 14, 2012Pretty Ugly takes the ugliest tropes of UK dance music and flips them inside out without losing what makes them so physically powerful in the first place.
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Mar 20, 2012There's occasional crimes of flannel-wet schmaltz but mostly Smart is like an esoteric, London-based Dam-Funk with a fondness for chemically enhanced raving.
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Mar 16, 2012Pretty Ugly is occasionally tender, sometimes facetious; thrillingly mechanical, let down by human voices; frequently adventurous, often injudicious.
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May 2, 2012Pretty Ugly is neither very pretty nor particularly ugly, rather a lumpen, unengaging mess.
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