“They sound almost nothing like each other, but the second album by Erika de Casier – that rarest of musical phenomena, an R&B artist from Ribe, a small town in southern Denmark – feels like a spiritual counterpart of another recent acclaimed album. Like Rina Sawayama’s 2020 debut, Sensational has its roots in childhood hours spent watching early-00s MTV. But while Sawayama reflected the channel’s ”
“Though heavily inspired by ’90s and ’00s R&B, the Portugal-born, Danish musician grows into a quietly commanding presence of her own on her second album.”
“De Casier’s whispers provide a sense of calm on a dramatic album, and a sense of seduction in embracing independence.”
“There’s something quietly defiant about Erika de Casier’s second album. Sensational has the same pillow-soft R&B influences as her self-released debut, which delved into the infatuation of love, but thematically it’s moved on, this time more concerned with female independence, through an exploration of relationship dramas. It’s an attitude and throwback to the sassy millennial feminism that the P”
