This Is How You Smile
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Heard City, Manhattan, New York
CD Alley 2, Durham, North Carolina
Molly & Keith's House
Island Universe Space
AIR Serenbe, Atlanta, Georgia
| This Is How You Smile | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 8, 2019 | |||
| Studio | 411, Brooklyn, New York Heard City, Manhattan, New York CD Alley 2, Durham, North Carolina Molly & Keith's House Island Universe Space AIR Serenbe, Atlanta, Georgia | |||
| Length | 40:55 | |||
| Label | RVNG Intl. | |||
| Producer | Helado Negro | |||
| Helado Negro chronology | ||||
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This Is How You Smile is the sixth studio album by American musician Helado Negro. It was released in March 2019 under RVNG Intl.
The title of the album is taken from a story by Jamaica Kincaid.[1]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.6/10[2] |
| Metacritic | 81/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10[5] |
| Loud and Quiet | 7/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10[7] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[8] |
| Spectrum Culture | [9] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | 4/5[10] |
| Uncut | 7/10[11] |
| Under the Radar | 7.5/10[12] |
In a year-end essay for Slate, Ann Powers cited This Is How You Smile as proof that the album era format is not dead in 2019 but rather undergoing a "metamorphosis", with artists such as Negro utilizing the concept album through the culturally-relevant autobiographical narratives, which in this case is a "bilingual love letter to his family".[13]
Pitchfork described the album as Lange's "sixth and best album as Helado Negro deepens and expands upon the imagistic nature of his lyrics and cosmic synth-folk. It is a sublime, masterful piece of music".[14]
