Kali Uchis’s new album, “Red Moon in Venus,” pushes toward celestial heights, but the singer kept her feet on the ground at a homecoming concert in Washington. Three albums into her career, she has never sounded more assertive, more nuanced, more decisive.
,” her stealth toggling between English and Spanish felt as exciting as it did breezily conversational.
Yet, as weightless as Uchis made all of that sound, her multidirectionality always had a quiet undercurrent of intentionality and discipline — especially during “,” one of the oldest songs in the set, and certainly one of the heaviest. “I don’t want to be your cigarette, I don’t want to be your ashtray,” she sang, delivering firm words in a dreamy timbre. “I don’t want to be your doormat, don’t want to be ignored, all of a sudden you’re not into me.
On the face of it, “I Wish You Roses” is a pacifist breakup ballad about civility, forgiveness, closure and renewal, presumably aimed at some phantom ex. But if you allowed your mind to get as loose as Uchis’s voice sounded in that moment, you might have heard the singer manifesting a more peaceful world, offering “roses and roses and roses and roses and roses” to anyone willing to stop and smell them.
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