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Oct 5, 2021Where Devotion was light and feathery, Colourgrade is haunting and visceral. She sounds wiser, more assured, laser-focused on what matters most.
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Oct 1, 2021Hearing Southern Man played on a single acoustic guitar as opposed to the thrash of the album is one epiphany, while the windswept Don’t Let It Bring You Down is cataclysmic. ... Magnificent.
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Oct 1, 2021As Colourgrade highlights, love, family, intimacy are central to her everyday. Luckily, she allows us to partake in these familial affairs, and the outcome is spellbinding.
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Oct 4, 2021Colourgrade is a strikingly honest audio portrait of love and creativity. It was a bold choice to make an album that's this much of a grower when attention spans are shrinking rapidly, but like the relationships Mastin and her friends allude to, it's well worth investing the time in Colourgrade.
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Oct 1, 2021Much like her previous work, the imperfections, leftfield leanings, and laidback nuances of the lo-fi aesthetic on Colourgrade demonstrate that modern love songs can hit places you never thought they had the integrity to ever reach.
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Oct 1, 2021Taking cues from her early mixtapes, its songs function as sketches that reinforce each other to create a heavy and rewarding listen.
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Oct 1, 2021This is Colourgrade's magic ⎯ it captures the quiet humdrum of life at its most unreal, blearing domestic love and childrearing and sleep and exhaustion into something suddenly, amazingly unfamiliar.
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Oct 1, 2021The 10-song collection is a fluid excursion through the contours of trip-hop, noise, R&B and electronic music, but even prohibitive genre categories cannot capture its free-flowing depth.
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Oct 1, 2021The sonics are strange and hard to recreate: they are forward thinking but in some ways ageless, a natural fit for Tirzah’s magnetic voice.
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UncutOct 1, 2021While these sonic smudges sometimes feels scrappy, there are sublime interludes here too. [Nov 2021, p.35]
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Oct 1, 2021Colourgrade can be something of a challenge, and certainly an intentional one. Tirzah seems to wonder just how far we’re willing to follow her into the maw. There’s nothing else quite like this available, yet this doesn’t make it a particularly pleasant listen.
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Oct 1, 2021Ultimately, Colourgrade feels like staying up all night on the couch alongside Tirzah, but rather than chatting away, you exchange the occasional warm remarks, getting no nearer to knowing what’s really going on inside her head.
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Oct 4, 2021It’s definitely an album served best by headphones and solitude, and one that won’t draw you back as much as it draws you in.
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Oct 1, 2021If a devil-may-care attitude is the album’s strength, it also can be a weakness. Songs hit or miss by chance, the product of unmoderated experimentation which can so easily become indulgence.
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Positive: 4 out of 6
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Mixed: 2 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Oct 7, 2021Gloomy experimental beats and otherworldly distorted vocals suspend the trippy mood until the end. one of the best albums of the year.
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Oct 2, 2021