Music / r&b

True romance


Reviews (2)


Pitchfork

d. 3. Mar. 2015

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Molly Beauchemin

d. 3. Mar. 2015

"True Romance (...) finds Estelle hewing a narrative, singing about passion and healing with the kind of focus and intimacy that all neo-soul ballads require. It's a decidedly inward-looking album, but as such seems too aspirational for its own good: Estelle narrates her experiences, and hovers so closely to the outline that it feels like we're checking boxes rather than happening upon these themes organically".


Rolling stone

d. 17. Feb. 2015

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Chuck Arnold

d. 17. Feb. 2015

"Tracing the stages of a relationship, the album is split into themes including courage, passion and (of course) true romance. It's a loose concept, but it delivers: "Something Good" keeps the Nineties-house revival pumping, while "Silly Girls" is Seventies slow-jam sumptuousness. Even better is "All That Matters" - a love letter to Dionne Warwick's Bacharach-David days that gives this album a fairy-tale ending".