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- Summary: The second full-length solo release for the New Zealand singer-songwriter features a guest appearance from Aldous Harding and was produced by Noah Georgeson.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Feb 12, 2018The singer elicited production help from Noah Georgeson ( Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart), a smart decision, given the subtle yet always effective sonic touches here. The result is a stunning work that will draw you back to repeated, if oft intense, listening.
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Feb 16, 2018Williams’ emotive baritone, as ever, commands center stage, but it’s the album’s experimental elements (the Suicide-ish drum machine on “Party Boy,” the strange synth accompaniments throughout) and subtle psychedelia (as on the spellbinding “Can I Call You”) that push Williams’ sound to a more interesting and promising place.
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MojoFeb 12, 2018This is a raw and acutely personal document. [Mar 2018, p.93]
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UncutFeb 12, 2018Thankfully, Williams' effort to emulate that bygone sound is too sophisticated and idiosyncratic to be mere pastiche. [Mar 2018, p.35]
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Q MagazineFeb 13, 2018Make Way For Love is a brooding and soulful offering from an artist keen to burst expectations. [Apr 2018, p.116]
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Feb 20, 2018He brings to mind Roy Orbison or Richard Hawley, but then on songs such as Beautiful Dress and The Fire of Love Williams has a magnificent, fluttering, gender-fluid falsetto that recalls Anohni or Perfume Genius.
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Feb 20, 2018Make Way for Love passes through in only 39 minutes, its brevity amplifying its power.
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Feb 16, 2018
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