Jul 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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Jul 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM

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Alina Baraz - It Was Divine

Considering how many cosigns she has on this album I'm just going to assume I've heard her at some point and forgot but for all intents and purposes his is my first expose to Alina and it's a good one!

Spent the last couple hours with this album on repeat (while I side quested on Final Fantasy 16 lmao) and it helped me solidifiy some overall thoughts on the project.

My Whole Life is an extremely strong start to the record for me, although they aren't bad by any means the album lyrically wasn't something that immediately jumped out to me overall but everything from the production to the melody and lyrics (the lyrics on Who Got Me are also good) really worked for me on this intro.

I also want to praise the transitions on this album, a lot times they were completely unnoticeable which made it feel like one big song in a positive way. 6lack is an artist that I always loved on features but never dived into his discog, this is no different. Morroco is great.

Frank is a solid track and Endlessly's beats switch is great

The entire run into Off The Grid is stellar imo, Khalid does great. I always love a good Smino feature, dude is just always solid and entertaining.

The 2nd half while still quite good imo is slightly weaker on 1st listen to me although it is already growing on me for repeat listens, I think its just a case of R&B not being one of my genres of choice that initially fatigued me a bit but listening to music with this tempo later in the day I'd super soothing.

I really liked Memo Blue and Who Got Me. The strings on Say You Know are also really pretty. And although I like the guitar Take It Home was a little mid for me, can see it being a grower.

Until I Met You was fun, Nas verse was a nice addition to make sure the record didn't get too monotonous. And The Beginning is also a super solid smooth closer.

Even though R&B isn't what I go to often this is the exact kind that i really enjoy so I want to thank Mr Roo for giving me a new album to vibe to from a lady with a very soothing voice! My only negative would be that the genre itself can make runtime drag slightly but that's heavily dependent on mood.

Favorite Songs: My Whole Life, Morocco, Endlessly, Gimmie The Wheel, Off The Grid, Who Got Me, Until I Met You.

RATING
8/10

 

Jul 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Alina Baraz

This is a fairly solid record in my opinion, I gave it two full play throughs the last couple days. I feel like with music like this ive got to be in the right mood to give it a fair listen cause its far from my go too.

Anyways Alina has a very good voice, I enjoyed the sound of most of the songs.

The first track that really grabbed me was "Frank" it has an Amy Winehouse sort of vibe to it.

Gimme the wheel is really smooth, and I enjoyed the production on that song as well.

Say you know is another favorite, I just love the vibe to that song.

Until I met you is great it has Nas so its hard to complain about and he has a solid verse. Anytime I hear him after a period of not listening to him much it makes me wanna jump in. Hes just so good.



Anyways overall i enjoyed this album, its not my favorite thing ever, I probably wouldn't revisit it much just cause its not really my kind of music but its still solid for what it is.

Score: 6.5/10

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