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Nov 19, 2024Leon isn’t a puzzle to be figured out. It is, more than most, just a suite of exquisitely expressed feelings, and the way Bridges sings makes everything feel unassailably real and true. It doesn’t have to add up. His songs are gorgeous, neither too obviously in debt to the past nor distractingly future-focused, all transported heavenwards by that beguiling, church-shivering voice.
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Oct 7, 2024With its polished sound and central themes of love, appreciation, and reflection, ‘Leon’ is a must-listen for fans of smooth and sonorous soul music.
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Oct 3, 2024With both ears pointing toward the future and his mind on his upbringing, Bridges adds another stunning LP to his colorful discography. LEON is staggering in its honesty and enthralling in its approach to such personal topics.
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Record CollectorNov 4, 2024Although recorded with different producers in Mexico and Nashville, you can't hear the joins on Bridges' warm embraces. [Dec 2024, p.106]
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MojoOct 21, 2024Peaceful Place slips in a bit of Afrobeat and That’s What I Love echoes Channel Orange-era Frank Ocean, and throughout Bridges’ vocal talents continue to shine. [Dec 2024 p.84]
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Oct 9, 2024Ultimately, on ‘Leon’, Bridges crafts an album that is at once deeply personal, and yet expansive and shared.
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UncutOct 3, 2024He writes evocatively about his home state of Texas, which lends these songs a vivid backdrop. [Nov 2024, p.31]
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Oct 3, 2024It has a rustic elegance stabilized by workmanlike drums and lively acoustic guitars.
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Oct 15, 2024All the emotions Bridges mines in looking back are flattened into another textural element in the mix, a move that results in an album as comforting as a cool summer breeze—and just as ephemeral.
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Oct 3, 2024The references [in “Panther City”] include hot days and old Nintendo 64s and a father’s warning about a street filled with crackheads and prostitutes. It’s the kind of specificity that works, even when the arrangements are more placid. Some of the album’s more general love songs —“NA” and “You Ain’t The One,” for example — are less intriguing.