I can feel you creep into my private life

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AlbumJan 19 / 201812 songs, 44m 19s
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The fourth Tune-Yards album bears more electronics and dance beats than its predecessors, but Merrill Garbus\' combination of sociopolitical savvy, outside-the-box creativity, and giddily infectious enthusiasm remains. While the R&B inflections and late-night club vibe of \"Heart Attack\" may represent something of a stylistic shift, the electronic beats of \"Private Life\" are sprinkled with the kind of world-music influences and playground-chant cadences that have been part of Tune-Yards\' tool kit for a while. And the minimalist, dub-like feel of the haunting \"Home\" comes off as organic as anything Garbus has done.

6.2 / 10

On her confrontational fourth album, Merrill Garbus wades into the politics of being white in America. It is musically and lyrically ambitious, but its grander themes land with an uncomfortable thud.

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Merrill Garbus must now be recognised as one of the most exquisitely playful and inventive voices of our generation.

On Tune-Yards' fourth album they've created an art-pop world that zings with colour and dances to its own clattering beat.

7.0 / 10

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Tune-Yards made a timely return with i can feel you creep into my private life, a vibrant album that explores the political and cultural tumult of the late 2010s with anthemic heft and individualistic perspectives.

Tune-Yards tackle important current issues on their most upbeat record yet, I can feel you creep into my private life.

8 / 10

It was hard to be optimistic when Tune-Yards released "Look at Your Hands" last October. The single traded the Oakland duo's signature rhyth...

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Listen to "Hammer" from this, the fourth Tune-Yards album, and you can picture Merrill Garbus at the song's creation.

7 / 10

In 2006, Merrill Garbus released her scrappy debut, ‘Bird-Brains’. Its smartly looping arrangements of ukulele and percussion were darkly

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6 / 10

Tune-Yards' new LP, their fourth, is both a listenable pop record and a serious examination of inequality through whiteness.

The album promotes a personal reckoning of one’s complicity in an increasingly toxic culture.

6 / 10

One of these things is not like the other.

7.5 / 10

The latest from Tune-Yards is as jubilant and groovy as listeners have come to expect, with strong political overtones and a unique personal touch.

Merrill Garbus’s identity politics may skirt self-parody, but by combining them with house and disco, she’s made an album custom-built for 2018<br>

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There are only so many beats and so many issues you can tackle at once.

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