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- Summary: The third full-length release from South African artist Moonchild Sanelly was produced by Johan Hugo.
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- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): International
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Jan 13, 2025Self-reflection and a handful of more pensive cuts make Sanelly a more three-dimensional figure than previously. To Kill a Single Girl (Tequila) is a hit-in-waiting, about how tequila does the lovelorn no good at all. What’s Xhosa for brat?
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Jan 13, 2025Full Moon is a distinctive and exuberant snapshot of an exceptional journey. It offers yet more proof that Moonchild Sanelly is a singular artist whose colourful aesthetic is not only discernible via her trademark blue mop of braids but in the joyous, sexy and defiant nature of her sound.
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Jan 10, 2025Produced by Johan Hugo (MIA, Kano, Self Esteem), Full Moon is maximalist, packed with sirens and shrieks and triumphantly rolled “r”s. That is, until the album’s closing tracks: Mntanami poignantly reflects on her father’s upbringing and its impact on her own, while I Was the Biggest Curse treads an increasingly empowered path through frosty beats.
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UncutJan 8, 2025"In My Kitchen" turns on an impressively dexterous, high-speed bar, while "Gwara Gwara" (A Durban dance gone global) is at once euphoric and anxious. [Feb 2025, p.37]
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Jan 16, 2025The narrative arc – so expertly disguised when the album started – yields a release with surprising character and soul.
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Jan 10, 2025Closing the album out, it becomes clear that Moonchild Sanelly takes a more reflective approach to the project, one that is undoubtedly her strongest to date.
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MojoJan 8, 2025Full Moon thunders on near-relentless sub-bass (Mntanami, about her absentee father) and post-dancehall Amapiano beats, with interludes of wishy-washy synthy vulnerability - a serviceable backdrop upon which this irresistibly raunchy personality reliably shines. [Feb 2025, p.88]