Album Rating: 5.0

Love the Blonde comparisons. Also Seigfried is better than Nights and Pyramids but whatever

Album Rating: 3.0

I am Lorde ya ya ya

Album Rating: 3.0

Like is this really all that great or did Lorde just listen to a lot of Kate Bush or smth

Album Rating: 5.0

Is there a single acclaimed female pop artist on this site with a piano ballad that DOESN'T get inexplicably compared to KB?



Lazy.

Album Rating: 2.0

i know you're not supposed to go into a pop record looking for anything inventive or fresh but oof. this all ran together for me; it's like modern pop with all the edges shaved off and without any truly great hooks to compensate. i still love the explosiveness of green light but the song structures on this record are so blah and the production is so blandly smooth

Album Rating: 4.2

"without any truly great hooks"



yeah uhh feels blatantly untrue to me. also this is pretty inventive, it's no fuckin Bjork or anything but compared to your usual fare this is definitely distinctive

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah the hooks here are top notch as are the lyrics

Album Rating: 2.0

hmm i'm not feeling neither the hooks nor the lyrics

well there are a lot of records out there in the sea i guess

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

this site arbitrarily obsesses with the strangest pop albums..

Album Rating: 4.2

as well made as the music is, the lyrics are 100% what make this album for me

Album Rating: 5.0

This has gotten pretty high praise across most platforms, not just sputnik

Damn, this is actually growing on me. I'm not sold on a lot of the lyrics, but the vocals are very well executed, and the production is flawless. I'm not usually into much pop, but this is working for me.

Album Rating: 3.5

Writer in the Dark and Hard Feelings/Loveless are reeallly tasty.

Album Rating: 4.5

"without any truly great hooks"



We listening to the same album here or...

Album Rating: 4.2

I think my only complaint here is that the second half feels slight compared to, well, everything up to and including Hard Feelings/Loveless. Writer and Supercut are two of the best songs here but being bookended with two fairly uneventful reprises saps them of the starring role they should have had, and then there's only one (admittedly great) song before it's over. Can't help feeling if there were two more full songs instead of the reprises/part twos this would be a classic

Album Rating: 5.0

I feel sort of the opposite. I really like the first three tracks, but the album really gets rolling at "The Louvre". I also don't think the reprise was really needed honestly. Every time I hear "Supercut" I'm ready for "Perfect Places", but then the reprise starts and kinda kills the momentum.

The only songs I'm not really feeling are the first two, everything else is great. The closer being the best obviously.

Album Rating: 4.5

How is Sober II (Melodrama) a fairly uneventful reprise? It's a fully fleshed out song, I view it as the title track here (as suggested by the parentheses). Actually a bit surprised it isn't getting much attention in the thread, love the beat drop, the strings, closing hook, everything about it.

Another thing: the album is addictive because of the brevity and compact quality. There's room for a song or two more, but then it would lose the tightness of pacing. At 40 minutes it leaves you almost rather than completely satiated. That seems intentional on her part.

Album Rating: 4.2

it feels like it's only just got rolling before it ends, there's a lot of beautiful stuff happening in the strings but lyrically and melodically (the two biggest strengths on this album) nothing really sticks with me.



agreed, the brevity of this album is a big asset, that's why I personally would cut both Sober II and Liability reprise in favour of original songs if I had the option

Album Rating: 4.2

also yeah alex I agree, the first three are terrific but The Louvre is where the themes and emotion of this album really comes to the surface in a major way. It's also the best song she has ever written