Ungodly Hour
| Chloe x Halle
Ungodly Hour
Ungodly Hour is the second studio album and fifth release by American R&B duo Chloe x Halle, released through Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records on June 12, 2020. It serves as the follow up to The Kids Are Alright (2018). Originally scheduled for a June 5 release, the album was pushed back to June 12 as a way of showing respect and support to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ahead of the album's release, two tracks were released, "Catch Up" (with Swae Lee featuring Mike Will Made-It) and "Do It", the lead single off of the album, which has now become their most successful single to date. "Forgive Me" was announced as the second official single and released alongside a music video on June 12. The album was critically acclaimed, with critics praising their vocal delivery, artistic growth, maturity, and the album's cohesiveness. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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The Guardian
The Bailey sisters’ second album is sophisticated and inventive – and about as far from Disney princesses as you can imagine.
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EW
Ungodly — the first album to find both Baileys officially of age — makes moves to change that, tiptoeing into more overtly grown-woman territory with its handful of carefully calibrated F-bombs and talk of groupies and infidelity, angels and demons.
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Uproxx
Thus, the diversity on Ungodly Hour widens, giving listeners more relatable and alluring content to indulge in. While doing this, Chloe x Halle also find perfection in natural flaws and untouched beauty, a theme they hint at on the album’s artwork.
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PopSugar
The range on this album is something to marvel at as well. There are tracks that make you want to cry alone in your room and tracks that deserve to be blasted through six-foot-tall speakers in a crowded dance club.
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The Anomaly Diary
With the relatable themes, good pacing, and of course, awesome performances, Ungodly Hour is their best work to date.
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The Line of Best Fit
Acting as both sultry invitation and empowered self-confession, the song is a clarion call for all those who deign to diminish the duo’s talents – talents that blaze through on Ungodly Hour with a full and unrelenting force.
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Medium
This album was my first experience with Chloe x Halle and I’m glad that I decided to listen to this album. From start to finish this record was enticing and impressive.
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Soul in Stereo
The beauty of Ungodly Hour is that it’s a youthful, exuberant release that never wallows in immaturity – a lesson even some crass R&B veterans should heed. The kids are more than just alright: these women are becoming R&B leaders.
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Euphoriazine
Equally catchy as it is hauntingly beautiful, Ungodly Hour – which the Bailey sisters delayed in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement – pairs the duo’s penchant for experimentation with a newly introduced eye for detail to offer up a record that comes together in a show of strength, maturity, and capability.
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FM Hip Hop
Each song is beautifully combined and easily distinguished through the use of their harmonic melodies, variety of instruments, and beat production.
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The Needle Drop
On their sophomore album, Chloe and Halle take a versatile and tasteful approach to contemporary R&B.
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Red Roll
Getting straight to the point, “Ungodly Hours” is a phenomenal album. It demonstrates Chole x Halle’s immense talent both lyrically and artistically as every song was written and produced by the duo. Not only that, but their voices are also simply angelic and they are able to produce some mind-blowing harmonies together.
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Rolling Stone
The R&B duo’s second album is beautiful example of sisterly solidarity.
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Soundigest
Out of Chloe x Halle’s three projects so far, Ungodly Hour is their essential album. It’s a storybook of vulnerability, confidence, and personality. From the vocals to the production, it takes their career and musicality to new heights. From start to finish, Ungodly Hour is an experience and will leave you feeling empowered and impressed by the unmatched talent of sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey.
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Our Culture
Nothing on Ungodly Hour is particularly new, but the way Chloe x Halle tiptoe around those superficial binaries – classy and modern, innocent and sultry, angelic and sinful – gives it a refreshing edge. And besides, they pull it off with such grace and charisma that you can’t help but succumb to its rhythm.
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Music Xclusives
Chloe and Halle have truly made names for themselves and Ungodly Hour is a well-rounded album that’s honestly one of the best of this weird and crazy year called 2020 already.
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Clash
The Ungodly Hour is a soothing salve for a world on fire. It’s an avowal of sisterhood and sorority, a projection of a generation of young black women galvanized by a collective willingness to enact efficacious change in the face of adversity.
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Naija Lyrics Zone
This feels like an album and an era that we need to experience right now — witnessing the excellence of two successful & gifted young black women as they come into their own and plant their flag as a promising and inspiring new voice of R&B for years to come.
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Pitchfork
Though most should understand that Chloe x Halle aren’t just television characters or former YouTube stars or proteges of the world’s biggest pop icon, but real grown women with layers, flaws, and emotions. With Ungodly Hour, Chloe x Halle take a quick moment to reflect on that growth, before they ultimately return to their grind.
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afterglow
Chloe x Halle reclaim their power and define their artistry in their best album yet.
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Random J Pop
Ungodly Hour is a package does what it needs to. The brevity and the way in which it ends leaves you wanting more. The talent is established. And it sets up a bright future for the girls which you want to follow them into to see what they deliver next.
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