★★★★★
January 3, 2014
"Ain't nobody here, baby, let's get wasted/We should just get naked," purrs 25-year-old Jhené Aiko on "Bed Peace," her winning hip-hop-soul tribute (with Childish Gambino) to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 anti-war "bed-ins." Of course, by the time the singer-rapper adds, "Go 'head, tell your baby mama you gon' be with me tonight," the "peace" business has gotten a little complicated...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-01-04
★★★★★
Jhené Aiko isn't a powerful singer, but she makes up for it with charisma and confidence. Her EP is intended to keep people sated until her long awaited full-length (tentatively titled ) arrives sometime next year. Given the time it took for this seven-track project to come out, expect a long wait. For her short career, Aiko has been cool to coast on her airy vocal delivery and finds her without reasons to change it up...
- exclaim.ca
2013-12-11
★★★★★
Jhene Aiko isn't the best upcoming R&B artist, but she is one of the most accessible. Much like Kendrick Lamar (a feature on Aiko's new album, Sail Out ), her persona contrasts her actions. Lamar plays the humble, everyman who'll paradoxically show off his world-beating rhyme skill. Aiko is similar in her reserve, as her only sign of actually being the femme fatale she's trying to be lies in her focused gaze and arched eyebrows...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-12-03
★★★★★
Jhene Aiko displays solid Hip Hop influenced soul on "Sail Out" giving off a feeling of authenticity to hold over current fans and possibly gain a few new ones. Jhene Aiko has already had a storied career. When B2K posters were on the walls of teenage girls everywhere, Jhene Aiko was there--signed to the T.U.G. imprint at the age of 13...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2013-11-28
★★★★★
If there's a right time to release a long-delayed EP, it's when you're sky-high, touring the world with Drake. On Sail Out, Jhené Aiko remains on her cloud, delivering 30 minutes of alt-R&B respite from reality, displaying soothing vocals, double-entendre-laden wordplay and a knack for choosing collaborators.
Bed Peace, with Childish Gambino, is a sugary-sweet standout, with Aiko's shining vocals detailing her ideal day. (Hint: it involves sex, smoking pot and more sex...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-11-28
★★★★★
It is easy to see the feather-voiced R&B singer Jhené Aiko in the lineage of female artists whose music hinged on the paradoxical power of vocals that felt like an outgrowth of a whisper. There is Cassie, the one-hit wonder who eventually achieved near-idol status amongst electronic producers enchanted by the icy sensuality of her music, and there is Brandy, whose voice is much richer but who nonetheless found her songs being clipped and looped by the same sort of producers (Burial, James...
- pitchfork.com
2013-11-22
★★★★★
If there's a right time to release a long-delayed EP, it's when you're sky-high, touring the world with Drake. On Sail Out, Jhené Aiko remains on her cloud, delivering 30 minutes of alt-R&B respite from reality, displaying soothing vocals, double-entendre-laden wordplay and a knack for choosing collaborators. Bed Peace, with Childish Gambino, is a sugary-sweet standout, with Aiko's shining vocals detailing her ideal day. (Hint: it involves sex, smoking pot and more sex...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
Where is Jhene's vocal range? You just keep waiting on it to arrive, but it never does, like a part-midnight food delivery that never arrives, or the retrospectively-absurd Christmas present you wanted for years and never received. Once a certain threshold is surpassed, once you realize that Santa or your parents or whoever else will not or cannot grant you your wish, you either give up or stop caring about this childhood desire and move on...
- www.djbooth.net
2013-11-16
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