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Quickening Image
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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut full-length solo release for The Maccabees frontman was produced by Markus Dravs.
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  1. 85
    A record full of handsome brass parading around an etch a sketch of ever changing life and love, Weeks holds the frame and with each listen you hear something you didn’t the previous time. A Quickening is your own bundle of joy you can love time and again, minus the diaper changes.
  2. Jun 11, 2020
    80
    Pairing this with sincere lyricism and soaring musicianship, ‘A Quickening’ emerges as Orlando Weeks’ most personal record by far, and is nothing short of stunning.
  3. 80
    A maelstrom of hums, echoes and grumbles of horns, percussion and bass pushes against always gentle melodies. But Week’s voice, striking and smooth, always blends with the music. One is not stronger than the other. Delicacy and power, waiting and living, the ordinary and the extraordinary – the listener is invited to feel it all.
  4. Jun 11, 2020
    80
    An album that leaves a profound impact in the softest manner possible, ‘A Quickening’ thrills with its pin-prick intensity, with its phantom-like layers of sound. In documenting fatherhood, Orlando Weeks has emerged as a songwriter renewed.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jun 11, 2020
    80
    It's an enchanting and quietly moving new chapter. [Jul 2020, p.104]
  6. Jun 18, 2020
    80
    It’s not a Maccabees revival, but rather a delicate, fragile document of a life-changing event – and one that will touch the heart of both parents and non-parents.
  7. Jun 16, 2020
    60
    An atmospheric ode to the anxieties and rewards of new fatherhood on his debut solo album.

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