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Pitchfork
d. 21. July 2017
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Kris Ex
d. 21. July 2017
"Best new music" - "With the assistance of fellow Chicagoans Chance the Rapper, Saba, and Kweku Collins, R&B artist Jamila Woods makes vital, resonant protest music that sounds like a children's playground".
AllMusic
2017
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Andy Kellman
2017
"Some moments regard an intimate relationship and independence, occasionally both at once, like when she affirms "Nobody completes me" in "Holy." A larger portion concerns communal matters like survival, resistance, sisterhood, and how to thrive in conditions designed to perpetuate oppression. The resolutely nurturing and buoyant qualities make it easy to miss out on some of the wisdom and stirring lines such as "Grandma loved granddaddy even after he forgot our names," related over Nico Segal's trumpet and the kaleidoscopic swirl of Stereolab's "The Flower Called Nowhere." Originally a digital-only release from Closed Sessions, HEAVN was expanded and reissued a year later by Jagjaguwar, made available on physical formats with a track list that added six interludes ...".
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d. 12. Aug. 2016
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Emil Eggert Scherrebeck
d. 12. Aug. 2016
"Det er borgerrettighedsbevægelsens kvindelige ansigt, Jamila Woods fokuserer på ... Jamila Woods arbejder med et enestående musikalsk overskud, og hun maler sine følelser op med så elegante penselstrøg, at jeg får en klump i halsen, når hun på »Blk Girl Soldier« synger »Look at what they did to my sisters« ... Musikalsk trækker hun (...) især på referencer fra det, man ofte kalder den sorte musikhistorie, hvor de mest gennemgående genretræk er soul og RnB ført an af Woods' sjældent smukke soulvokal, der vækker mindelser om Erykah Badu. Men Woods har også meget eksplicitte melodiske og lyriske referencer til mere traditionelle hvide genrer og kunstnere ... Heavn er fremragende produceret af en række stjerneproducere, blandt andre supergruppen The Roots ... Og jeg kan ikke stærkt nok anbefale alle at give den et seriøst lyt".