We Are KING

KING - We Are KING
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2016 Ratings: #64 / 1004
User Score
Based on 83 ratings
2016 Rank: #468
February 5, 2016 / Release Date
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

We Are King is all about plush, impeccable grooves and spine-tingling harmonies. It's without fault.

80
SPIN
Committed to sonic pleasure, KING regard themselves as another set of instruments, absorbed and projected through speakers. It’s like hearing a full Fela album side as female R&B.
80
Billboard

Debut LP We Are King finally gives the act room to stretch its crushed-velvet sound to its outer edges.

80
The Guardian

Every track on We Are King putters and glides by quite smoothly. It’s only gradually you notice how complex this dream state actually is.

80
NOW Magazine

We Are King expands the familiar R&B set-up – the harmony group – into a mind-altering cosmos distilling jazz, Luther Vandross, video game music and 90s Aaliyah and Missy Elliott influences into a heavily textured sound that enters psychedelic territory by evoking sparkly, vivid colours. 

78
Pitchfork

KING harkens back to a time when there were clearer distinctions between R&B, pop, and hip-hop, when acts like Jodeci and SWV ruled the airwaves, and the music was lighter and more sensuous. We Are KING recalls the best of that era without completely rehashing it.

70
PopMatters

We Are King is an album designed to work on the listener as a whole. The LP’s slow-burning atmospherics, vamping introductions and sophisticated song structures unfold elegantly and purposefully over the course of its 60-minute runtime.

70
Exclaim!
Sequencing issues aside, the strength of Paris' production is the biggest standout aspect of the project.
lemuriams
85

I know that the book is not judged by the cover, but the cover of the album is the worst I have seen in this and previous years - three girls on the cover and the two look worse than disabled (what a haircut?). We are king make wonderful R'n'b, which have long not heard. AMBITION is poured out on the album, but you have to remember that good cover also attract the eye, a bad scare.

plowo
79

wonderful trippy rnb

BuffaloStaple
66

I like the production a lot, it's very detailed and lavish sounds good, but I can't say i'm too crazy for the vocals. There are times were I feel like they were trying to reach into their upper register vocally, and it just wasn't really working for me personally. A few of the hooks aren't too bad though, however I think a lot of these tracks don't really have much focus or sense of direction, a lot of songs just kinda felt like they went nowhere and just kinda meandered. Overall, it's a decent ... read more

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