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- Summary: Kassa Overall and Reggie Watts guest on the second full-length solo release from British jazz artist Emma-Jean Thackray that was planned to explore themes of mental health, but its focus shifted to grief and individuality following her partner's passing in 2023.
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- Record Label: Brownswood Recordings
- Genre(s): Jazz
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May 5, 2025Here's to Thackray seeing a payoff beyond this brilliant and enriching work of art.
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Apr 24, 2025‘Weirdo’ is as stark, sharply composed and up close to its creator as the photo that adorns its cover.
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Apr 28, 2025That anyone could craft work so head-spinningly euphoric, so joyous and life-affirming, as a deliberate response to the unmooring felt following the death of their partner and amid an ongoing war with their own mental health, is a kind of miracle. But that’s just the start of what’s marvellous about this magnificent record.
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Apr 24, 2025At 19 tracks, Weirdo presents a potentially overwhelming spread of sound, but it’s impossible to identify any flab or superfluous moments here: musically eclectically inspired, thematically deep and profound, Weirdo is a total triumph.
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MojoApr 24, 2025Funny, bleak, cathartic and brave, with a winning redemption arc, in all but design Weirdo is a blues album - transforming unbearable pain into deeply affecting, original art. [Jun 2025, p.86]
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UncutApr 24, 2025it's a densely layered, frictional set that matches emotional heft and musical invention in equal and impressive measure. [May 2025, p.39]
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Record CollectorMay 16, 2025It becomes quickly apparent that Weirdo is a more personal record - gut-punchingly so, at times - but for all the pain that inspired it, it feels like a celebration too. [Jun 2025, p.105]