Album Reviews7.2/10
Dua Lipa Keeps the Disco Pulse on Radical Optimism, but the Hooks Don’t Always Land
Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism dances with bright hooks but flatters in flashes, a fair record chasing a rarer, more singular glory.
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Category: Album Reviews
Records we have scored.
Album Reviews8.9/10
Hit Me Hard and Soft: Billie Eilish’s Most Complete Record Yet
A hush-to-shout journey through Eilish's third record, where quiet moments carry as much weight as the swells that follow them.
Album Reviews8/10
Heaven Knows Review: PinkPantheress Stretches Her Hooks Into a Full Album — 8/10
A ghost of a swift, sweet album where sorrow becomes hooks — deep, quick, and mournful all at once.
Album Reviews9.6/10
Three Years On, Caroline Polachek’s Desire Still Sounds Like Pop Reaching Past Its Own Limits
A brief record of desire wrought in five songs, wherein Polachek's art doth swell beyond its modest length into rare and singular grandeur.
Album Reviews8.4/10
Troye Sivan’s ‘Something to Give Each Other’: 32 Minutes, Not One Wasted
A record of joy and sorrow given in the same breath, ten songs that waste no second in their whole brief span.
Album Reviews9.1/10
GUTS: Olivia Rodrigo Gets Loud On Purpose — 9.1/10
GUTS finds Rodrigo sharper and angrier, twelve tracks of confession and scream that rarely miss their mark.
Album Reviews8.5/10
Chappell Roan’s ‘Midwest Princess’ Debut Earns Its Pink Pony Club Peak — 8.5/10
A bold pop record of drag-club sparkle and plain Midwest memory, weighed down only by a slow closing stretch.
Album Reviews8.4/10
Hold the Girl: Rina Sawayama Trades Restraint for Scale, and Mostly Wins
A record wherein a singer, with arena-vast ambition, doth reach into memory and pull forth a younger self through pop and choir.
Album Reviews7.8/10
Lizzo’s ‘Special’ Stays in Its Lane — and That’s the Point
A brief chronicle of Lizzo's fourth record, twelve tracks of confidence and romance, weighed against its aim to please.
Album Reviews9.3/10
Beyoncé Turns Club History Into a Dance-Floor Triumph on RENAISSANCE — 9.3/10
A record of solemn dance and sacred groove, wherein one voice traces the lineage of club music into a single, joyous hour.