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May 19, 2016Rae's languid enunciation gets lost on faster tracks, and on Caramel and Night her vocal style shifts to a heavy-handed singer/songwriter coffee house/lullaby mode. Most captivating are the moments when she returns to exploring the thrill of vulnerability on Hey, I Won't Break Your Heart; emotional standoffs on Been To The Moon; and anxiety-inducing ruminations on Do You Ever Think of Me?
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May 16, 2016Rich with on-point retro-futurist sounds, such as the gem-like, sultry neo-soul of Green Aphrodisiac. ... But there’s some unwelcome pandering to all markets in ghastly guitar ballad Stop Where You Are, a misstep looking for a Coldplay album, and a couple of tracks where smoothness wins out over personality.
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May 12, 2016Do You Ever Think of Me, with its shifting chords and sweet falsetto peaks, treads a little too closely to Curtis Mayfield’s The Makings of You for comfort, and other tracks tend to drift so smoothly they can pass you by. But on Caramel, her soulful vocals are given space to bloom over a billowing pop backdrop.
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Q MagazineMay 11, 2016The Heart Speaks In Whispers is the sound of her getting it right again. [Jul 2016, p.105]
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May 11, 2016Sadly, following the great strides made on the grief-stricken The Sea, with The Heart Speaks In Whispers, Corinne Bailey Rae reverts to the blandly serviceable beige soul of her 2006 debut.
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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