洗練された美しいソウル/R&Bサウンドを堪能出来ます!
グラミー賞も受賞したシンガーソングライターの新作アルバム。洗練された美しいソウル/R&Bサウンドを展開。英語とスペイン語のバランスも素敵で、Omar Apolloとのメロウな(3)、Don Toliverとの現行シーンを意識したR&B(6)、心地良く爽やかな(9)、Summer Walkerとの甘美な(13)など。盛り上がりを見せるR&Bシーンは2023年も続きそうだ。傑作! (C)池袋店:柴野 直史

タワーレコード （2023/03/17）

コロンビア生まれ、米ヴァージニア州育ちの女性シンガーソングライター。2021年発表スペイン語アルバム『Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞』で大ブレイクし、リード曲「telepatia」は全米シングル・チャートで23週連続チャート入りを果たし、初のグラミー賞受賞、ビルボード・ラテン・ミュージック・アワード受賞など、数々の業績を既に遂げているKali Uchisのニューアルバムが完成。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2023/01/25）

Few artists in the 2020s are as deserving of carte blanche as Kali Uchis. Before delivering Red Moon in Venus, the singer and songwriter had earned a Latin Grammy nomination, a Grammy win for Best Dance Recording, and other nominations in the R&B and Musica Urbana fields, plus platinum certifications as headliner or co-star of five rather different singles. Isolation and Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios) Infinity behind her, Uchis seemed primed for the difficult third album with every right to unload a carnivalesque triple LP presented as a fuzzy concept with enough stylistic whimsicality to offer something for everyone. Red Moon in Venus instead is highly concentrated in every respect. Flush with supple slow jams and celestial ballads, its mostly about love, from possessiveness and blissful escape to vexation and bittersweet farewell. While it doesnt have the swagger or humor of Isolation, its engaging from start to finish, consistently palatable. Uchis somehow displays as much charisma and vocal elasticity as ever, and her verses are often as instantly memorable as her hooks. Assorted production allies -- longtime associate Josh Crocker, the equally compatible Sir Dylan, and resurgent master Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins among them -- help Uchis make each sound her own. "Hasta Cuando," frosted electro with a bumping beat that recalls Whodini, deals out teeth-kissing bilingual retribution: "Dices que yo la vida te la jodi/Its sad that youre still obsessed, keep lyin on me." "Blue," lithe sophisti-pop replete with saxophone, makes dejection sound as glamorous as anything by Everything But the Girl or Sade. Philly soul older than half a century is evoked in "Love Between...," a dazed ballad rendered with enchanting finesse. Part of what makes the album remarkable is that these ideas sound fresh beside songs like "I Wish You Roses," "Endlessly," and the Don Toliver duet "Fantasy," additional highlights that emit kaleidoscopic swirls of pop-R&B, warm rays of post-disco boogie, and romantic dancefloor heat. The low-spirited moments are typically as alluring as the bliss-outs, and though theres a breakup in the mix, Red Moon finishes as Uchis pushes the reset button on a relationship with a strong sense of optimism. ~ Andy Kellman

Rovi