Sparklmami makes in this body feel intimate, glittering and slightly unreal

Sparklmami’s in this body enters the 18 June Pitchfork review cycle as a debut that seems to understand the body as both home and stage. The Texas-born, Chicago-based artist draws on jazz, disco, pop and R&B, which is a strong palette for music that wants to move and confess at the same time. The reported framing of the album as both fantastical and intimate is exactly what makes it interesting. Some records use shimmer to avoid vulnerability; this one sounds like it may use shimmer to reach it. Jazz gives the music breath, disco gives it light, R&B gives it closeness, and pop gives the emotional shape somewhere to land. in this body sounds like a debut concerned with presence: being seen, being strange, being embodied, and maybe dancing before the explanation arrives.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sparklmami-in-this-body/