- Record Label: One Little Independent Records
- Release Date: Jun 6, 2025
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Jun 9, 2025The language of contrasts she creates only immerses us further in Laini Tani's transcendent, nearly purgatorial atmosphere as it builds. But beyond its conscious atemporality, Laini Tani's beauty is what makes it so entrancing.
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The WireJun 17, 2025It’s smooth and contemplative at times, punctuated by cinematic ruptures and ambient textures that trail behind El Shazly’s elastic vocal phrasing. Her voice, processed and layered with care, frequently emerges as the central narrative device and quickly slips between intimacy and distance. [Jun 2025, p.58]
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Jun 9, 2025For best results listen, not hear it, on headphones. The way the backing tracks float in your head is just bliss.
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UncutJun 9, 2025It's rich in moods and textures, variously lean and percussive, euphoric, foreboding and melodically vibrant. [Jun 2025, p.31]
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MojoJun 17, 2025The songs often begin like standards then vanish beneath noise creeping in from the sides. .... Before the music returns to the foreground, triumphant. [Aug 2025, p.83]
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Jun 9, 2025Her voice remains gorgeous, but tracks like Banit and Elnadaha never lift beyond a plod; never seizing in the way you know her work can.