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Nov 25, 2025The shared lightness of touch among the producers suits Walker's uncommonly exquisite and authoritative voice. While she's still going through it, her artistic power remains undiminished.
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Nov 19, 2025The best R&B release of this year. .... But without an overlay of humor, her more conventional songs here — the pretty and tragic “Stitch Me Up,” or the brawny hit “Heart of a Woman” — feel a touch incomplete. Setups without punchlines. Nevertheless, she’s the most intriguing and ambitious soul singer of her generation, even more so when she stops keeping a straight face.
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Nov 19, 2025On ‘Finally Over It’, the final instalment in the series, Walker feels unshackled for the first time, no longer haunted by her public break-ups.
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Nov 19, 2025The sugar coated melodies and lush production give ‘Finally Over It’ a frictionless feel this time round, but Walker’s aching monologues keep things grounded in reality.
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Nov 19, 2025She still puts the blues in R&B here, and a bolder change of subject matter would be a welcome evolution. No, it’s the way Summer Walker surveys her genre and everything it touches that feels most like the lover girl’s new lease on life.
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Nov 19, 2025Her provocations are tamed, her rasp is sanded down, the limits of her range more strictly enforced. At times, though, Walker herself takes cover in plain sight.