Epic ten
Sharon Van Etten
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Reviews (6)
AllMusic
2020
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Andy Kellman
2020
"This group's most striking and affecting work yet. 5, 7, Untitled (Black Is), and Untitled (Rise), issued within 16 months, amount to exactly three hours of exceptionally recombinant and enriching pro-Black music with minimal excess. The rate and power of the output is stupefying".
The guardian
d. 17. Sep. 2020
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Alexis Petridis
d. 17. Sep. 2020
"Mystery collective make best album of 2020, again: From its fierce opening salvo to its deceptively mellow conclusion - the sweetness of "Little Boy"'s piano-led melody, vocal delivery and children's choir countered by the righteous anger in its lyrics - Untitled (Rise) hardly yields highlights because the quality never wavers: whoever's involved, it feels like they've been galvanised to the top of their game. It manages to be as lyrically unflinching as the music is compelling - not the easiest balance to achieve, as acres of terrible protest songs historically attest. You'd call it the album of the year if its predecessor wasn't just as good".
AllMusic
2020
By
By
Andy Kellman
2020
"This group's most striking and affecting work yet. 5, 7, Untitled (Black Is), and Untitled (Rise), issued within 16 months, amount to exactly three hours of exceptionally recombinant and enriching pro-Black music with minimal excess. The rate and power of the output is stupefying".
The guardian
d. 17. Sep. 2020
By
By
Alexis Petridis
d. 17. Sep. 2020
"Mystery collective make best album of 2020, again: From its fierce opening salvo to its deceptively mellow conclusion - the sweetness of "Little Boy"'s piano-led melody, vocal delivery and children's choir countered by the righteous anger in its lyrics - Untitled (Rise) hardly yields highlights because the quality never wavers: whoever's involved, it feels like they've been galvanised to the top of their game. It manages to be as lyrically unflinching as the music is compelling - not the easiest balance to achieve, as acres of terrible protest songs historically attest. You'd call it the album of the year if its predecessor wasn't just as good".
Variety
d. 18. Sep. 2020
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Jem Aswad
d. 18. Sep. 2020
"This one is Sault's most accessible to date, with the harder, more angular rhythms of the previous "Untitled (Black Is)" replaced by driving, danceable grooves and more approachable melodies - at least, until moments like when you realize, in the middle of the fast and hard-driving "I Just Want to Dance," that the lyrics have moved abruptly from dancefloor-loving lines like the title to "We lost another life" to "Why do my people always die?" ... The fact that Sault seduces listeners, drawing them in with beautiful sounds, and then hits them with uncompromisingly direct lyrics and messages that startle them into thinking about things they might not normally think about, especially when grooving to music, is perhaps the greatest triumph. Sault's music is definitively 2020, by, for and about these times".
Variety
d. 18. Sep. 2020
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By
Jem Aswad
d. 18. Sep. 2020
"This one is Sault's most accessible to date, with the harder, more angular rhythms of the previous "Untitled (Black Is)" replaced by driving, danceable grooves and more approachable melodies - at least, until moments like when you realize, in the middle of the fast and hard-driving "I Just Want to Dance," that the lyrics have moved abruptly from dancefloor-loving lines like the title to "We lost another life" to "Why do my people always die?" ... The fact that Sault seduces listeners, drawing them in with beautiful sounds, and then hits them with uncompromisingly direct lyrics and messages that startle them into thinking about things they might not normally think about, especially when grooving to music, is perhaps the greatest triumph. Sault's music is definitively 2020, by, for and about these times".