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Apr 12, 2024With her deft band, the New York-raised, New Orleans-based musician (on cello, banjo, and guitar) pairs music from her Haitian-American roots with threads of its Caribbean, Latin-American, and African family tree. .... It’s the most engaging, dynamic and, crucially, personal of her five solo albums.
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Apr 23, 2024In this most recent work, she continues cultivating an expansive and complex sense of roots and relative self. It’s a joy to witness.
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Apr 15, 2024While the heavier, distorted guitars of Tower and Love We Had feel somewhat jarring in the ebullient context of the album, Sun Without the Heat is a freewheeling and joyous listen, with McCalla employing her knowledge of musical traditions to produce fresh combinations.
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Apr 12, 2024Sun Without The Heat is an engaging musical journey through Leyla McCalla and her band’s vast influences as the impressive artist keeps crafting engaging music for the body and mind.
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Apr 12, 2024This edge, this acknowledgment of the stakes at play behind her messages of faith, pushes these songs past any risk of empty sentimentalism, and makes Sun Without The Heat truly uplifting. [May 2024, p.87]
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UncutApr 12, 2024Resounds with the liberated feeling of an artist who not only has something to say but an audience to say it to. [May 2024, p.35]