Black Origami (studio album)
by Jlin

Black Origami by Jlin
Year: 2017
Release date: 2017-05-19
Overall rank: 3,908th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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Award Top albums of the 2010s (696th)
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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 70.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.

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From 07/15/2019 17:04
Darker and colder than her first album, Black Origami finds Jlin swimming at the deep end, pulling out all manner of percussive tricks and dehumanised vocal samples to produce a record that demands you move your body without the simple four-to-the-floor template.
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From 08/17/2018 05:27
gonna be honest, i just really don’t understand the appeal here. many of the songs sound very similar, which isn’t inherently a bad thing, but this album just sounds awkward and messy.
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60/100
From 04/26/2018 01:15
It's interesting I will give the album that. But not only are these songs skeletal, they are also pretty samey sounding. Decent, but as an artist she has to flesh out her songs a lot more.
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70/100
From 01/19/2018 01:52
Some parts were intriguing, others sounded far too much like a marching band
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From 11/14/2017 10:51
I'm lost
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From 05/29/2017 10:59
A solid album from Jlin; I love the energy and unpredictability and "Black Origami" has opened my eyes to the footwork genre. Great stuff.
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