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For all its significations and referents, the album never feels overburdened or contrived.
Throughout, the songs unravel into convoluted tangles of disembodied voices, discordant jazz piano, and droning synths.
The album is entranced by the prospect of resurrecting forgotten ghosts.
The album is the product of an artist who knows who she is and wants nothing more than to rage and revel in it.
The album vastly improves on its stagnant predecessor, but its 20-song tracklist is invariably bloated.
The album trades overstimulating spectacle for low-key introspection, but it’s therapeutic as a cup of tea.
The album is a heavy-hitting rejoinder that rearticulates the headlines of a year fraught by global and personal trauma.
Over 12 tracks, the singer-songwriter is haunted by older versions of herself and captivated by wishful daydreams.
The album feels stuck looking back to tried and true trends in both K-pop and Western pop music.
The album is tantamount to the relatable but rote sadness of a Twitterdecked epigram.
The album chronicles the euphoric highs and harrowing lows of a parasitic relationship.
These restless songs flit between lapses of focused meditation and fretful apprehension.
Though the rapper pontificates on his wealth and street cred, the album’s biggest boast is his vulnerability.
Rather than significantly alter or challenge the singer’s previous approach, the EP merely embellishes it.
The visual album proposes a pan-African vision of legacy, abundance, and unity.
On her third album, the British singer-songwriter settles into a sense of immediacy.
An effort to appreciate the present before it slips away into the recesses of memory forms the album’s foundation.
Despite glimmers of authenticity throughout the album, it’s hard to discern who Gomez is, musically or otherwise.
The album is steeped in warm acoustics juxtaposed by austere observations about life and love.