Dancing with myself
February 14, 2023

Critics really like the new Kelela album 'Raven'

"'Raven' isn’t a magpie record, and the shifts between sounds are never jarring or overwhelming. Kelela has too much command over her own sound for that... Tracks flow into and out of each other, speeding up or slowing down at their conclusions" - Stereogum goes reviewing the newest album by the American singer (tagged it their Album of the Week). Pitchfork hears a "masterful display of tension and release, centering queer Black womanhood through blasts of heated dance music and ambient comedowns" (tagged it best Best new music, score 8.4). Telegraph says the "Ethiopian-American artist Kelela Mizanekristos has blessed us with a sexy, sultry masterclass in RnB".

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Last weekend NTS Radio and Warp Records celebrated three decades of great electro label, with some of the Warp's biggest names debuting new music - Autechre revealed two hours of unreleased material from ’89-93, Boards of Canada contributed a two-hour mix of new and unreleased material, Kelela sang over various retro Warp productions, Death Grips […]