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- Summary: Co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan, the debut full-length release for Canadian music teacher-turned R&B singer includes influences from funk, jazz, and synth pop.
- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Genre(s): Electronic, Downtempo, Indie Electronic, Alternative R&B
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Top Track
| Pull My Hair Back | |
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| If you want love If you want love Let me pull my hair back If you want love So that I could fall Just let me pull my hair back Yeah Ohh ohh ohh Hmmm... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Sep 20, 2013It's this combination of shadowy unknowability and full-hearted melody that makes Pull My Hair Back such an intriguing listen, and certainly one of the year's best debuts.
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Sep 20, 2013Whilst it obviously won’t be eligible for the Mercury Music Prize on the basis of nationality, this compelling, rigorous and often beautiful work ought to receive the same level of attention as Jessie Ware’s debut.
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Sep 20, 2013There's arguably nothing groundbreaking about Pull My Hair Back, but its artful combination of influences, subtle production, and the ambiguous emotional terrain it covers makes it one of the strongest debuts of the year.
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Sep 20, 2013Pull My Hair Back still shines with nonsensical warmth that is just as much sensual as strange. Kathy Lee would be proud.
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UncutSep 20, 2013She's made a hugely satisfying album of slinky electronic soul. [Oct 2013, p.71]
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Oct 21, 2013Ms. Lanza, who is Canadian, moves with purpose and authority in and around the rhythms on this album which, produced by her with Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, in places nods explicitly to Timbaland’s skittish production.
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The WireDec 10, 2013The R&B tropes are part of a reassuring past, and the half-there vocals don't add enigma so much as leave the music unchallenged and stick in its old ways. [Oct 2013, p.47]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Mar 19, 2016
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