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  • Summary: Dutch singer-songwriter Amber Arcades worked remotely with producer Ben Greenberg for her third full-length release.
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  • Record Label: Fire Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Apr 25, 2023
    85
    This is a collection that should reaffirm Annelotte de Graaf as one of the finest European songwriters of her generation. Barefoot on Diamond Road is a magnificent return that also whets the appetite for what might come next, as the scope of those wares holds no bounds.
  2. Apr 25, 2023
    80
    At times, the first two Amber Arcades albums felt like they were made by someone feeling her way toward something better; Barefoot on Diamond Road is where de Graaf arrives.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 25, 2023
    70
    A set full of dynamic nuance with a filmic scope. [Mar 2023, p.23]
  4. Mojo
    Apr 25, 2023
    60
    de Graaf is repositioning herself in a mightily crowded market, but the sometime human rights lawyer triumphs via intense lyrics about coming-of-age awareness, loneliness in the big city, life's unpredictability and, on Water Stains, the old chestnut of time's passing. [Mar 2023, p.87]