“Veering from the personal to the profound, Shades is a darkly poetic confrontation of modern turmoil…

Such is the virtuosity and accomplishment of her playing...

It’s hard to believe it is the work of just one person.”

– The Line of Best Fit: Album Review 9/10

 

"Vera Sola's music is as timeless, contrasting, evanescent and elegant as the artist's visual world...

Shades is well above the hunt for the next playlist: it tells the story, always wonderful, of an artist

who reveals herself to the world with

an absolute masterpiece."

-Magic, Revue Pop Moderne: Album Review 6/6

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“[What] Quentin Tarantino soundtracks are made for: coolly retro and rooted in spaghetti-western desert soul…for fans of: Nancy Sinatra, Nicole Atkins and civil disobedience.”

– Rolling Stone: The Colony, Songs of the Week

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“A masterful story-teller that exudes an effortless mystique. She sweetly coos…in the deranged way that Nick Cave would take on in the role of Stagger Lee…It is performative, theatrical and spellbinding.”

– The Line of Best Fit: Small Minds, Song of the Day

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“Vera Sola twists the singer-songwriter rulebook in fascinating directions.”

-DIY Mag, The Colony, Neu Pick

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“This is undeniably music that needed to be made.”

— For the Rabbits

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“An utterly singular talent.”

—The Sunday Times UK, Album Review, Essential New Releases

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