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- Summary: The second full-length release from New York-based R&B artist keiyaA features a guest appearance by Rahrah Gabor.
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- Record Label: XL Recordings
- Genre(s): R&B
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Nov 5, 2025If it was difficult to fathom what could surpass Forever, Ya Girl's genius, there are no signs of sophomore slump on hooke's law. Building on the modern R&B template of her debut, her second album accomplishes a Herculean task: being conceptual and moving as well as fun.
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Nov 5, 2025Collectively, everything on hooke’s law works in tandem to underline keiyaA’s artistic pluralism. Since her debut, her music has defied easy, convenient explanations, much to its benefit. These songs are an amalgam of woozy electronica, labyrinthine jazz, bass-heavy hip-hop, arty pop, and soothing R&B.
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Nov 7, 2025hooke’s law unfolds like a diary, with each track offering an enlightened and realistic perspective on self-love.
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Nov 5, 2025The album is spacious yet claustrophobic, improvisatory yet focused. You find something new with each return visit.
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Dec 16, 2025It’s simultaneously consistent and assorted, richly individuated without any overwrought attempts to appear authentic.
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Nov 20, 2025The 19 tracks range from the serious to the silly, often in the same song and even the same sentence. There’s lots of sex and violence, life and death, confusion and contentment, all wrapped in exotic sonic cloth. The album begins with a waltz and ends with the instructions to start again in a Möbius loop. Is this Hooke’s Law in action, taking us back, or have we overstretched the spring past its elastic limit? .... We never really know, but there’s plenty to enjoy and leftovers to ponder.
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The WireNov 14, 2025Some will delight in her richly creative studio experiments, while others may find it too vague and discursive, despite several strong cuts like "Devotions" and "Think About It/What U Think?". [Dec 2025, p.63]