For All We Know

by 

Nao

AlbumJul 29 / 201618 songs, 53m 48s95%
Alternative R&B Electropop
Popular Highly Rated
7.9 / 10

On For All We Know, Nao autopsies various relationships—with friends, lovers, outgrown versions of herself—and, having decided what went wrong, calmly takes down the perpetrators.

8 / 10

U.K. neo-soul singer shines on her first full-length record, which brims with sweetness and vulnerability as well as some unbelievable production.

From South Woodford via Nottingham and with a background that’s as much gospel and jazz as garage and new R&B, and includes a stint at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama, Neo Joshua seems a pretty safe bet, even though it’s taken her 28 years to get around to her debut album.

Impossibly coherent; the product of earned wisdom welded to raw talent.

9 / 10

Two weeks before the release of her debut full-length album, UK R&B singer NAO was worried. The perpetual rumour mill of pending Frank Ocean...

7 / 10

In a time where the value of the album has a looming question mark hanging over it, one might think it quite brave of East London’s Nao to release

An assured first offering from the east Londoner combines fast sonic cuts and painterly production with defiantly old-school touches