Sincerely,

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“I’ve been realizing that I really made the album that I needed to heal myself,” Kali Uchis tells Apple Music about <i>Sincerely,</i> perhaps her most liberating work yet. The Colombian American singer-songwriter’s catalog has never felt slight or frivolou, whether in English or in Spanish. Yet this full-length follow-up to her 2024 <i>ORQUÍDEAS</i> dyad presents as something truly unique, arriving roughly a decade after her promising EP debut <i>Por Vida</i>. The majority of the songs here began simply as voice note, fortuitously captured in inspired moments outside of the confines or pressures of a studio setting. “Messages would just feel like they were directly coming through me, and I just had to get them out,” she say. Given such natural creative origin, it should come as little surprise that the actual process behind the album eschewed industry norms altogether, favoring home recording and unconventional setting. And despite the demonstrated level of guest vocal talent at her fingertip, she opted out of feature, too. “When you’re making emotional music, you have to actually dig into difficult subject,” she say, marking a clear distinction between this piece and its star-powered predecessor. As a result, <i>Sincerely,</i> feels disarmingly intimate for what is ostensibly a pop album, even one from as consistently adventurous an artist as Uchi. The evocative moments of opener “Heaven Is a Home…” and closer “ILYSMIH” speak on love in grand and sweeping gesture, the passing of her mother and the birth of her son making understandably profound impacts on the work. .

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