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80
Whilst there are echoes of the bluster of Florence and the Machine and the minimalist soul of Jessie Ware here, Soft Control is a distinctive take on modern pop and an album with crossover appeal.
11y
70
Soft Control is an album of neatly constructed soulful pop songs that anyone who likes the artists it references would enjoy.
11y
63
For an artist who has undergone so many identity experiments before her debut, Soft Control is a promising, if not groundbreaking, beginning.
11y
40
There is precious little personality to be found on this dry, pedestrian record, which comes across as a selection of yawn-worthy Adele-rejects rather than a cohesive body of work from a singular artist.
11y
40
For an album which features a list of impressive producers, it feels though one of them should have worked on the album as a whole to give βSoft Controlβ cohesion and the platform for Welsh to jump from.
11y
Laura shows all its vocal power, in a dark and melancholic album with well-honed songs and a sound somewhat peculiar.
I don't know why "Self Control" is so polarizing. Its a perfectly fine pop-R&B record and Laura's voice is wonderful.
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Track List
| 1 | Soft Control 4:25 | |
| 2 | Ghosts 3:49 | |
| 3 | Break the Fall 2:54 | |
| 4 | Unravel 2:43 | |
| 5 | God Keeps 3:26 | |
| 6 | Cold Front 3:23 | |
| 7 | Hardest Part 3:48 | |
| 8 | Still Life 3:21 | |
| 9 | Breathe Me In 3:18 | |
| 10 | Call to Arms 4:01 | |
| 11 | Hollow Drum 2:57 |
Total Length: 38 minutes
