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‘Renaissance’ Review: Beyoncé’s Home Sweet House

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Renaissance (★★★★☆), an album that, at its core, captures the physicality of the dancefloor and everything that goes along with it.Its story should sound familiar by now: amid the uncertainty of a global pandemic and the claustrophobia of quarantines and lockdowns, an artist longs for the freedom, expression, and human connection of the club and puts out an album inspired by dance music.Although the COVID dance album has become something of a meta-genre at this point, Beyoncé’s take on it is, unsurprisingly, a standout.Renaissance is undeniably a fun dancefloor fantasy, but it works as well as it does because it is made from a place of intimate familiarity with its genre.

Beyoncé and her co-writers and producers were already steeped in the legacy of dance and house music as a form of and conduit for expression, and have clearly done their homework.Grace Jones blesses the album with an appearance on “Move,” and as fun as it is to hear her and Beyoncé together on the chorus, the act of getting her into the recording studio in the first place feels like a sign that Beyoncé knows what she’s doing.For her part, Beyoncé uses her powerhouse vocals to particularly great effect when flexing the upper limits of her range in tracks like the captivating “Virgo’s Groove,” which completely deserves its six-minute runtime.It’s not the only one — most of the tracks stretch on in a way that allows them to breathe and unfold at their own pace, and the album’s hour-long runtime feels fresh and noteworthy in the streaming era.Renaissance features an extensive list of co-producers, and coming from an artist who has been alternately celebrated and derided for her extensive writing credits, it should come as no surprise that it proudly and.

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