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Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one. The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, "Figures." Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling "Gatekeeper" -- an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator -- in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender. She has co-written simple love songs like "One Kiss," a U.K. number one, U.S. Top 40 pop hit for Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa, and has also worked with Romeo Santos, Eminem, and Sam Smith. All of this has indicated that Reyez is a complex figure not cut out for unloading unified, easily digestible LPs. Before Love Came to Kill Us simply, if in a deliberately messy way, expands on her EPs, singles, and collaborations. Reyez makes her entrance with "I shoulda fucked your friends" on the adult contemporary quasi-trap ballad "Do You Love Her," and just before the reappearance of "Figures" finishes with a comparably wholesome form of remorse on the gospel-tinged "I Do." The in-between highlights are just as scattered. Reyez uses her voice as a protean instrument -- the settings of which include crooning child, squeaky-swaggering hedonist, high-velocity rapper, and raging Gwen Stefani -- and on the haunted ballad "La Memoria," she sings in her first language. Unsurprisingly, the emotions are varied and unfiltered. Reyez is obsessed enough to "jump off the roof" (the Eminem duet "Coffin"), willing to pledge her allegiance to XXXTentacion's "Fuck Love" ("Deaf [Who Are You]"), steadfast and grateful in the traditional ballad sense ("Love in the Dark"), and assertive in dominance ("Ankles"). That covers less than one-quarter of what Reyez relates here. Although it's all over the place, Before Love Came to Kill Us radiates conviction from front to back, and is without doubt a true representation of its creator.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Amy Langley, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Ball, Producer, Keyboards, Piano, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lazuli, Producer, Additional Producer, Bass, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, Additional Producer, Drum Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Fredrik Ball, ComposerLyricist - Rui Afonso, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kamo, Producer, Additional Producer - Mario Jefferson, ComposerLyricist - Kyle Owens, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Andre "Dre" Harris, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Thomas Roach, ComposerLyricist - JT Roach, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - R!o, Producer - Darius Ginn Jr, ComposerLyricist - Andrew "Drew" Chavez, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dre Pickney, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shroom Beeze, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Akil "worldwidefresh" King, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2020 FMLY
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Strange, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eminem, Producer, Additional Producer, FeaturedArtist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Campana, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tobias Frelin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe Strange, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, Author, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bizness Boi, Producer, Programmer - Andre Robertson, ComposerLyricist - Karl Wingate, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Spencer “Moose” Muscio, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tobias "Priest" Frelin, Producer
℗ 2020 FMLY
Andrew Harr, ComposerLyricist - Andre Davidson, Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jermaine Jackson, Drums, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alex Delicata, Producer, Additional Producer - Mayne, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Davidson, ComposerLyricist - The Monarch, Producer, Additional Producer, Vocal Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Alexander Delicata, ComposerLyricist - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, Author, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - BLVK JVCK, Producer - Karl Wingate, Editor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Jaramye Daniels, ComposerLyricist - Henrik Bryld Wolsing, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Hennedub, Producer, Drums, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - 6LACK, MainArtist - Ricardo Valentine, ComposerLyricist - Anders Soe, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2019 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Björn Djupström, ComposerLyricist - Tobias Frelin, ComposerLyricist - Johann Deterville, Percussion, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jessie Reyez, Producer, Mixer, Co-Producer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Savannah Ré, Producer, Vocal Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tobias "Priest" Frelin, Producer, Guitar, Co-Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Björn "Beast" Djupström, Producer, Bass Guitar, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - YogiTheProducer, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kyle Owens, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - R!o, Vocal Arranger, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Isong, ComposerLyricist - P2J, Producer - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bizness Boi, Producer - Andre Robertson, ComposerLyricist - Spencer “Moose” Muscio, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Björn Djupström, ComposerLyricist - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Björn "Beast" Djupström, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mura Masa, Producer, Additional Producer - Alexander Crossan, ComposerLyricist - Riley Bell, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jessy Aaron, Producer, Additional Producer - Karl Wingate, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Spencer “Moose” Muscio, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 FMLY
Tom Elmhirst, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Björn Djupström, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Burnett, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Frelin, ComposerLyricist - Ann Marie Simpson, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Brandon Bost, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Abby Khalek, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Bassett, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Scatchell, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tobias "Priest" Frelin, Producer, Co-Producer - Björn "Beast" Djupström, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - John Zach Dillinger, Viola, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2020 FMLY
Andre Harris, ComposerLyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jaramye Daniels, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kamo, Producer, Additional Producer - Mario Jefferson, ComposerLyricist - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andre "Dre" Harris, Producer, Drums, Additional Keyboards, Organ, Additional Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Jessie Reyez, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Memru Ranjaan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - R!o, Producer, Programmer - Darius Ginn Jr, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Buice, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew "Drew" Chavez, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dre Pickney, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Michell, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Gorden Campbell Choir, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Akil "worldwidefresh" King, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2020 FMLY
Shy Carter, ComposerLyricist - Björn Djupström, ComposerLyricist - Tobias Frelin, ComposerLyricist - Cole Nystrom, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deyoung, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jessie Reyez, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - The Priest and The Beast, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tobias "Priest" Frelin, Producer - Björn "Beast" Djupström, Producer
℗ 2017 FMLY
Albumbeschreibung
Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one. The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, "Figures." Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling "Gatekeeper" -- an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator -- in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender. She has co-written simple love songs like "One Kiss," a U.K. number one, U.S. Top 40 pop hit for Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa, and has also worked with Romeo Santos, Eminem, and Sam Smith. All of this has indicated that Reyez is a complex figure not cut out for unloading unified, easily digestible LPs. Before Love Came to Kill Us simply, if in a deliberately messy way, expands on her EPs, singles, and collaborations. Reyez makes her entrance with "I shoulda fucked your friends" on the adult contemporary quasi-trap ballad "Do You Love Her," and just before the reappearance of "Figures" finishes with a comparably wholesome form of remorse on the gospel-tinged "I Do." The in-between highlights are just as scattered. Reyez uses her voice as a protean instrument -- the settings of which include crooning child, squeaky-swaggering hedonist, high-velocity rapper, and raging Gwen Stefani -- and on the haunted ballad "La Memoria," she sings in her first language. Unsurprisingly, the emotions are varied and unfiltered. Reyez is obsessed enough to "jump off the roof" (the Eminem duet "Coffin"), willing to pledge her allegiance to XXXTentacion's "Fuck Love" ("Deaf [Who Are You]"), steadfast and grateful in the traditional ballad sense ("Love in the Dark"), and assertive in dominance ("Ankles"). That covers less than one-quarter of what Reyez relates here. Although it's all over the place, Before Love Came to Kill Us radiates conviction from front to back, and is without doubt a true representation of its creator.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:52
- Main artists: Jessie Reyez
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: FMLY - Island Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2020 FMLY ℗ 2020 FMLY
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