Keys
| Alicia Keys
Keys
Keys is the eighth studio album by American singer and songwriter Alicia Keys, released through RCA Records on December 10, 2021. It was primarily produced by Keys. It was preceded by the release of two singles: "Lala (Unlocked)" featuring Swae Lee and "Best of Me". The album was announced on October 27 and includes two discs (original and unlocked), with two versions of 10 tracks, along with six other tracks. -Wikipedia
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The Guardian
With stripped-back and beefed-up takes on each track, Keys’s eighth album should be two for the price of one – but not all songs work both ways.
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Rolling Stone
Her eighth album is her most ambitious to date, going from torch ballads to dance tracks and spanning decades with ease.
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NME
The singer has been stunningly prolific in the past year or so, and – for better or worse – this sprawling record is ideal for the streaming era.
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AP News
Over the years, Keys has transformed herself while exploring different sides of her talent but in “KEYS” her confidence is apparent.
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AllMusic
Two of Keys' most moving vocal performances are contained in "Is It Insane," an anguished torch song done acoustic jazz-trio style, and "Love When You Call My Name," a levitating ballad out of time.
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Vinyl Chapters
Alicia Keys’s latest release KEYS offers an intimate and extended exploration of her sound, while maintaining her signature vocal and virtuosic pianism.
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Clash Magazine
A huge undertaking, ‘KEYS’ seems to find the American artist both embodying and rebelling against her own archetypes. Literate and honest, it doesn’t always connect, yet with 90 minutes of music to explore it’s a project that demands time and patience to truly absorb. Eschewing definitions, Alicia Keys seems to spin the wheel once more – where she goes next is entirely up to her.
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Evening Standard
The 26-song monster acts as its own remix album - but the second round is hardly a hardship to get through.
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The Line of Best Fit
Alicia Keys continues to settle into a fruitful groove on the unique double album KEYS.
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Slant Magazine
With Keys, Alicia Keys Unlocks Herself from Genre Constraints.
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Riff Magazine
Alicia hits just mediocre ‘Keys’ on new album.
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Soul in Stereo
There’s a really good album drowning in all this excess. I’m just not sure most listeners will stick around to find it.
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The Independent
An experimental double record that stops short of reaching its tall ambitions.
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Ratings Game Music
There are no bad songs on KEYS, but it is a hella long album that feels like listening to the same album on repeat by track seventeen. Alicia did throw in a couple of Unlocked songs that are not from this album and that helped break up that feeling of repetition, but it was definitely still there.
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Gen B Magazine
Overall, ‘KEYS’ is an album like no other in today’s generation. Not many artists would be capable of creating this type of project. Alicia executes it very well. The highs on this project reach the sky, and the lows don’t leave you too underwhelmed. The quality of instrumentation pouring out of the music is outstanding. With ‘KEYS’ Alicia reminds the world how much of a special talent she truly is.
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