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2019 April

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Gonçalo Frota

2019 April

"[Andrade] now digs deeper into the pop world, only this time around she is thinking less globally. This means that she sings in Portuguese and Creole, but also that her music is much more informed by the trends that are taking over African contemporary popular styles. There are a lot of electronic gimmicks and a couple of effects over her voice (as in "Afeto"), but she has never sounded so free. And that's particularly poignant, whether she's placing her vocals on the top of the smooth beats provided by African electronics wizards 2B and Akatché on "Manga" or "Segredu", or when she's summoning emotional intensity as on "Plena"'".