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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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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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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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Dec 4, 2017An album that improves with each listen, with an accomplished, ornate warmth.
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Nov 30, 2017It’s all done with a precision and neatness that betrays Iqbal’s dance music roots, with each moment providing an aesthetic delight, from the medley of drumbeats that opens Eternal Passion to the liquid gold guitars that frequently surface.
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MojoNov 30, 2017It's got real presence. [Jan 2018, p.88]
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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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Dec 19, 2017With enough listens, you'll even catch yourself humming its melodies, but the ideas come close to feeling generic.
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Dec 1, 2017Weighing of the Heart is, to me, an unripe album. The recording is slick and the mix is by the guy who mixed the last Gorillaz album, but I just don’t feel any outstanding music-making talent or skill. I see a marketable product.
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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.