They're Calling Me Home

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2021 Ratings: #14 / 753
User Score
Based on 128 ratings
2021 Rank: #474
Liked by 9 people
April 9, 2021 / Release Date
LP / Format
Nonesuch / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Guardian
This is a big, beautiful album, a showcase for direct, punchy emotions and Giddens’ vocal versatility.
100
The Irish Times
This remarkably cohesive album of 12 wildly disparate tracks cuts to the heart of what isolation and distance might mean.
90
Uncut
Most striking of all is “О Death", modelled on Bessie Jones’ version, in which Giddens’ extraordinary voice hits new levels of resolute power.
80
PopMatters

They’re Calling Me Home memorializes and breathes new life into a set of songs that feel familiar and entirely unexpected.

80
AllMusic
The pair find comfort within each other, yet they cannot shake the yearning for other people and places, a complex set of emotions that were quite universal during 2020 and 2021 and are richly conveyed on this soulful, searching album.
80
Under the Radar

Albums like They’re Calling Me Home are so effortlessly masterful, so mesmerizing, that the listener can write them off as easily replicable. But the work of Giddens and Turrisi is unique to them.

80
Mojo
The pair’s musical chemistry is a potent one and best illustrated by the swirling Avalon with its layered vocals and the couple’s enthralling version of Amazing Grace.
80
The Arts Desk
One of the warmest and most uplifting of albums recorded under Covid conditions.
AngelHerntz
70

They're Calling Me Home me remitió a otra época, una época donde la música no era como ahora la conocemos, antes de la revolucionaria idea de Alba Edison en el siglo XIX, mucho antes del momento en que no sólo era un lujo recurrir a ella, sino un privilegio para las cortes burguesas; tal vez es la música del medievo europeo la que evoca en mí. Es hermoso pensar cómo es que aún hoy día después de tantos años no ... read more

ocrakraut
80

Those who know the duo get what they expect.
To those who don´t this is folkmusic (including one italian opera song) performed in an austere and serious manner. Both musicians are masters of their main instruments (Banjo, Frame drum) and Rhiannon Giddens is a great (classicaly trained) singer. This recording seems to get down to the roots of folk (Songs about Death, being homeless, and faith) and some songs are almost transcendental in their spiritual quality. Yet there is sth. that I ... read more

SonicDiscovery
75

American folk singer and songwriter Rhiannon Giddens brings out a lot of heart and meaning through her words and the way she delivers them with her striking voice and on her newest venture They’re Calling Me Home, she once again collaborates with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi to bring us their take on traditional folk and gospel. There are moments here that are mostly instrumental (like a hummed take on the classic “Amazing Grace”), but elsewhere the true power of ... read more

christar
91

Some thoughts about death, faith and home.

82

One of the greatest productions of 2021, i am just putting my scores of last year albuns cuz im new here, so, its a lot to put a specific critic again in all albuns that i listened last year.

70

Okay, I relent: Rhiannon Giddens is not going to make an album of originals that sounds like the country-leaning Americana of her 2015 cover album “Tomorrow Is My Turn.” A unique talent and a true original within the world of American folk music, Giddens is so well-suited to traditional country-folk that I’ve always held out hope that she’d further explore this lane, which is closer to my taste than her more recent works. But it’s simply not where Giddens’ ... read more

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Added on: March 16, 2021