We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
The album has the potential of a personal masterwork, but its master is more conductor than confessor.
The album is slack, with perfunctory ideas waiting impatiently for guest stars to enliven them through association.
The album works best as a song cycle rather than a collection of pop hooks.
The album is the fascinating work of two artists committed to sounding non-committal.
YG largely trades the personal for the political—and gives up very little of the partying.
The album offers an even more vibrant collection of colorful, propulsive beats than Nick Jonas did.
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The album covers torch music, jangle pop, front-porch folk, and alternative country, all with a quiet showmanship.
Clocking in at nearly two hours, the album is a chock-a-block song cycle stuffed with concepts, textures, and ideas.
Most of the songs on the album are quick and fun, with bright hooks and buoyant keyboards.
This is a band very much alive, and hungry, not simply a bunch of middle-aged rockers taking a victory lap.
The album is full of squiggly synths, bubblegum melodies, drum machines, and syrupy Hollywood strings.
Skin shows Flume as unquestionably human, but still a bit faceless.
Adele’s new music video is a a kaleidoscopic feast for the eyes.
Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman smartly has one eye fixed squarely on the past.
“Can’t Stop the Feeling!” is, at best, an innocuous visual interpretation of an innocuous song.
The album finds Blake sidetracked by all the things he can do and doing them coldly, rather than focusing on the few things he should.