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Dec 22, 2016Telefone is a unique project that points to even greater things for Noname in the future.
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Dec 22, 2016Telefone shows a great sense of promise and complex beauty.
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Dec 22, 2016It’s a record swathed in simple but effective neo-soul melodies, echoing Chance, but also early 00s R&B with its gentle pianos and smattering of light hi-hats and percussion. Warner’s own languid style of delivery only adds to the lilting nature.
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Dec 22, 2016[Noname] enlists a cast of varied, rich voices: Raury’s starry eyed spirituality, Xavier Omär’s velvet croon, and Cam O’bi, who sums up the record’s charms perfectly on Diddy Bop: “This sounds like growing out my clothes, with stars in my pocket, dreaming about making my hood glow.”
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Dec 22, 2016Her skipping cadence and ability to dance around words while establishing that each one is equally important are poet's skills, making you listen to every word without ever seeming overdetermined or obvious.
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Dec 22, 2016It's some of the year's most thought-provoking hip-hop.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 53
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Mixed: 2 out of 53
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Apr 10, 2017
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Dec 20, 2018i like it sooo much///very emotional and so rare just for me, listen to it.
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Dec 28, 2016