Album Reviews6.1/10
Thirteen Years On, Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP Still Struggles to Fuse Fine Art With Pop Culture
A review of Lady Gaga's ARTPOP, weighing its pop ambition against its artifice, track by track.
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Category: Album Reviews
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Album Reviews6.4/10
Twelve Years On, Cheek to Cheek Still Sways More Than It Soothes
A review of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's Cheek to Cheek, a standards record where the chemistry between the two singers carries the record.
Album Reviews6.3/10
Kiss at 14: Call Me Maybe Still Carries Carly Rae Jepsen’s Pop Record
A review of Carly Rae Jepsen's Kiss, a pop record whose hits define it while its lesser tracks merely fill space.
Album Reviews7.9/10
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘The Loveliest Time’ Balances Ambition and Heart, Mostly Landing on the Highs
A review of Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loveliest Time, weighing its ambitious genre-hopping against its weaker, padded middle stretch.
Album Reviews8/10
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Day and Night Balances Bright Summer Pop With Dark Dance Tracks
A double record of day and night, Carly Rae Jepsen's bold ambition across 24 tracks, reviewed.
Album Reviews8/10
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Double Album Moves From Solitude Toward Joy
A double album of twenty-nine songs, wherein loneliness and love contend within one voice.
Album Reviews8/10
Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Demos Review: The Unmastered Versions Carry The Weight
A review of Lana Del Rey's 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Demos,' a 31-track instrumental and unmastered collection.
Album Reviews7/10
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Studio 365 Sessions’: A Session Tape, Not an Album
A record of takes, versions and scraps from a studio session, wherein songs evolve from fragment to form.
Album Reviews8/10
Lana Del Rey Demos Review: Rough Cuts, 19 Tracks, 73 Minutes Of Early Scaffolding
A collection of rough cuts from an artist's early years, raw and unfinished, revealing the scaffolding before the final masterpiece.
Album Reviews6/10
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Non-Album Demos’ Is a Curiosity, Not a Record Anyone Needs
A sprawling cabinet of Lana Del Rey's demos, mixes and alternates, weighed against her true work.
Album Reviews8.1/10
Lana Del Rey Wanders America on Chemtrails Over the Country Club
A wander through the country club skies, where Del Rey leaves Los Angeles in a white dress, seeking freedom amid the chemtrails.
Album Reviews7.9/10
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Commits Fully to Darkness, and Mostly Pays Off
A tale of shadow and desire, wherein a maiden sings of cruelty and affection in the dark, and the tale is one continuous night.