For all we know

"An assured first offering from the east Londoner combines fast sonic cuts and painterly production with defiantly old-school touches ... Throughout, Nao balances some very aerated sulking about unsatisfactory relationships with defiantly old-school touches. You can hear everyone from Janet Jackson to Aaliyah in this confident artist's deceptively dreamy tone".

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"On For All We Know, Nao autopsies various relationships-with friends, lovers, outgrown versions of herself-and, having decided what went wrong, calmly takes down the perpetrators ... There are few surprises in the music, but its crisp bombast complements the vocals, playing abrasive beats against silky seduction".

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"Joshua's voice might be best matched for conveying the rush of falling in love, highlighted in the teasing/teetering ballad "Feels Like (Perfume)" and the whomping boogie track "Happy." Alternately, she's just as natural at covering opposing moods, as on "Trophy," a jab of rigid funk in which an objectifier is efficiently swatted. She's operating at an advanced level".

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"Den britiske sangerinde Nao (...) har udgivet en lang række bemærkelsesværdige singler og ep'er de sidste par år og [er] nu endelig er ude med sit debutalbum ... Nao tager det bedste fra Prince og omformulerer det med en ny elektronisk r&b-intensitet. Hun er indehaver af en af tidens mest markante stemmer, og hendes samarbejde med produceren A.K. Paul leder tankerne hen på den energi, der var imellem Quincy Jones og Michael Jackson på 'Off the Wall', 'Thriller' og 'Bad'. Det er Nao, der lige nu på den mest markante vis viser os, hvordan fremtidens sofistikerede popmusik lyder".

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