The singer has yet to discover a sound or sensibility that truly distinguishes her.
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The album’s pleasures make lasting impressions, but the larger takeaways are a mixed bag.
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“The Cure” abandons the middling singer-songwriter pap of recent single “Million Reasons” and abruptly shifts gears.
The specter of violent death becomes a narrative device that wraps its arms around the whole album.
What Now treats music as a force that’s cathartic and ephemeral but just as often deceiving.
Wrangled feels like an antidote to some of the more testosterone-driven material coming out of Nashville.
The Chainsmokers are more interested in following in the steps of Fun. than continuing to carve out their own niche.