Reflections

Hannah Diamond - Reflections
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2019 Ratings: #414 / 805
User Score
Based on 585 ratings
2019 Rank: #426
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
The Line of Best Fit
Such a duality implies the sheer range of Diamond’s artistry, so much so that it would be criminal to label her a “new kind of popstar”. Simply put, she is a new kind of star, an artistic voice that stands out in the tumult of the modern musical world.
80
NME
The Charli XCX collaborator has a gift for unknotting messy emotions, though the buoyant pop works better than the sluggish ballads
80
Clash

Songs on ‘Reflection’ transcend the boundaries of radio-ready pop music.

80
The Guardian

On these melancholy bangers, the PC Music singer uses nursery rhyme-like melodies and a girlish sing-song delivery to essay the pain of being lovelorn and vulnerable.

80
The Observer

Led mainly by producer AG Cook, Reflections immaculately houses Diamond’s heartache in techno-adjacent bops or twinkly, snowflake-soft beats, as on the gloopy title track. It’s an album that draws you into Diamond’s world, full of real, 3D emotions.

70
Exclaim!

It really does sound like pop music from 15 years in the future. Hopefully a more substantial collection of new material isn't too far into it.

65
Spectrum Culture

Reflections is an odd thing: a conservative, meat-and-potatoes example of a genre that looks to the future. Some might find it underwhelming for that reason, but Reflections is an enjoyable listen

62
Pitchfork
Heavy on vocal processing and maximalist A. G. Cook production, the PC Music star’s first full-length can’t help feeling a little anticlimactic.
60
The Needle Drop

Reflections finds Hannah Diamond and her producers playing it safe with PC Music's circa 2014 style.

WhatTheFunk
NR

Make Believe

One of the key elements of the 2019 music landscape is the sharp rise of the Bubblegum Bass. Hannah Diamond released her first album in time to join her contemporaries on the first line of this still fresh genre that is destined to shape the pop of the 2020s. This 28-year-old English woman makes everything she touches shine. Singer, composer and photographer, she finished her debut album after seven singles on the PC Music label.

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Plats
81

"Reflections" shows yet another welcome addition to the PC Music catalog, with Hannah Diamond showing some great production, catchy hooks and a bunch of that standard PC Music personality thrown in for good measure.

Fav Tracks: Fade Away, Concrete Angel, Invisible, Love Goes On, Make Believe, Reflections

Least Fav Track: The Ending

Score:
8.1
Great

Doofy
NR

"another week of the lunar cycle and you'll be sitting on my face, yummy yum"

dirty moon

ig3tlonely
60

I went into this really expecting to like it but by ‘Make Believe’ I was excited for it to be over.

Slush_Puppy
91

I can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on one of the best pop albums ever made.

Aqualad
70

very fun, but not as fun as I was expecting (in both a good and bad way)

favorites: Fade Away; Love Goes On; Never Again; Concrete Angel

least favorite: Shy

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Track List

1Reflections
3:54
81
2Invisible
3:19
89
3Love Goes On
4:35
82
4Never Again
3:45
80
5True
3:31
77
6Concrete Angel
4:58
92
7The Ending
3:51
79
8Shy
2:53
76
9Fade Away
4:15
96
10Make Believe
3:55
84
Total Length: 38 minutes
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Added on: November 16, 2018