Album Rating: 4.0

Certainly a hell of a lot better than Solar Power, that's for sure

Well I also think Melodrama is pretty overrated so that's def informing my take

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah it was

A weird thing about Solar Power (which I actually kind of like and think will have its day in the sun as a contrarian favorite down the line) is a bunch of that record seems to be about how she thinks her writing about her adolescence was somehow deficient. But then you listen to PH and it seems way more self aware than most of what she wrote on SP

Album Rating: 5.0

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Album Rating: 4.0

I think Melodrama is easily her best, but this one is pretty special too.

I've just been listening to "ribs" a lot lately and I think that song has something I just don't get anywhere on melodrama, among other things

Album Rating: 2.5

Ribs really do be great

Album Rating: 4.0

prefer melodrama overall, but this one definitely has a more signature sound

Album Rating: 4.0

Melodrama is defs a better end-to-end record, but I feel it's disappeared into pop history; haven't felt a need to listen to it in years. Highlights and production on this left a more engaging/enduring legacy by a long shot

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah melodrama is an amazing pop album, but pure sound-palette wise (not really execution-wise) it sounds like it could have been made many other pop artists



While this feels more influential to me. Nowadays this more minimalistic production is more common, but i can't recall any other mainstream pop album sounding like this in 2013