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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the London-based artist who previously performed under the name Throwing Shade.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Dec 11, 2017The record manages to sound venturous and recklessly current. Iqbal’s use of chiming guitars, serendipitous synths and scurrying beats results in a record that is opulent in its warmth and sparklingly neat.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2017She's created an album that discovers an uncanny balance all of its own. [Feb 2018, p.109]
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Jan 5, 2018The LP examines the traps of routine and the possibilities that dreaming and music offer to escape from them--and however distanced Iqbal might seem in her performance, as a listener you’ll quickly find both real connections to the album’s themes, and the variety of gorgeous sounds that she uses to express them.
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Dec 6, 2017With Weighing of the Heart, Iqbal adds another couple of strings to her bow, emerging as a pop auteur and songwriter of impressive emotional heft.
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UncutDec 21, 2017At its blissed-out best, as on "Saw You Twice" and "Feel So Right," her new direction conjures the kind of streetwise reverie rarely heard since the days of AR Kane and One Dove. [Feb 2018, p.28]
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Nov 30, 2017It’s an honest record, one that puts Iqbal’s own deftly balanced sound and influences to the forefront, while also having some piercing yet thoughtful insights into contemporary society. As a first step under her own name, it’s a hugely confident stride forward.
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Nov 30, 2017Weighing of the Heart plays out as the soundtrack to a forgotten '90s B movie; novel, but not great.
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