freezing has been featured on NPR's 50 Best Albums of 2024!
You can see the whole list here, which includes Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet, Kendrick Lamar's GNX, and Charli xcx's
brat.
"While the 30-year-old Canadian mezzo-soprano emerges into stardom (she opened the Metropolitan Opera season this fall), she's yet to release a standard-issue "opera arias" album. And that may confound traditionalists. On Freezing, Emily D'Angelo opts for a smartly curated mix of folk and pop-ish songs. I admire her restless curiosity and, frankly, wouldn't mind if she sang a physics textbook. The voice is that beautiful — a burnished mahogany instrument with crisp (but not overly fussy) diction, tidy vibrato and elegant phrasing that sounds at home whether she's conjuring Jean Ritchie in the old Irish ballad "O Love is Teasing," diving deep into the melancholy of Purcell's "O Solitude" or probing the heartbreak of Randy Newman's "Wandering Boy." The arrangements are sparse but fresh — scorching electric guitar, droning synths and simple piano. D'Angelo is proving that her voice is one for all seasons. —Tom Huizenga"
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