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- Record Label: Elektra
- Release Date: May 3, 2024
- Summary: The debut full-length release from British indie pop artist Rachel Chinouriri features contributions by producer Rich Turvey and Kenny Beats.
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- Record Label: Elektra
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 13, 2024What’s remarkable about ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’, though, is that the gravitas of this weightier material isn’t cheapened by the sudden contrast, just as the LP’s initial buoyancy somehow doesn’t become retrospectively flippant. Instead, the album honours that life’s lightness isn’t contradicted by the dark moments, but rather co-exists alongside them; a reminder that everything – and everyone – contains multitudes.
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May 2, 2024A thrilling, needle-to-the-red experience, ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’ never sits in one place.
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May 2, 2024‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’ – despite its slightly macabre title – is consistently charming, while offering enough range in sound and scope to hint at Chinouriri’s future ambitions. She has worked hard to make it sound this easy.
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May 2, 2024Chinouriri has cited African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo as one of her major inspirations – alongside Coldplay, Lily Allen and the indie folk trio Daughter. It’s her range that lends Chinouriri success in this latest release.
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May 3, 2024After a string of EPs, Chinouriri arrives at her first full-length with confidence and ease. Devastation has never sounded so fun.
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May 9, 2024Chinouriri is an accomplished songwriter. Ideas spill out of every crammed corner of this collection. Her often hushed husky voice, developed when trying to practise without annoying her Zimbabwean parents, isn’t for everyone. Yet there’s range to her delivery, whether dropping punchy barbs during Dumb Bitch Juice or self-excoriating on My Blood and I Hate Myself.
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May 21, 2024With their fluting vocals and bird chirps, her songs could fit on the soundtrack of Michaela Coel’s sitcom Chewing Gum, about a 24-year-old British-Ghanaian woman trying to lose her virginity. Through humor, pop hooks, and scenes of emotional intimacy, both works juxtapose the vibrancy of life with the drab realities of public housing.