The Provocateur

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2025 Ratings: #79
August 22, 2025 / Release Date
EP / Format
ADÉLA, Liam Benayon, Dylan Brady, Leland, Grimes, +10 more...Writer
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80
Earmilk

The Provocateur feels anything but timid. It's sexy, strange, intelligent, and emotionally honest—a debut that establishes ADÉLA as one of experimental pop's most compelling new voices. She's a shapeshifter who refuses categorization, daring to be everything, all at once.

rbbaddie
87

She may be pissing in the cover, but this ep is the SHIT

Insane single run, incredibly cohesive and musically ambitious, this is how you debut in 2025. I don’t think there’s anyone right now making music like this (referring to both sound and quality)

Superscar is an incredible opener and the cookie cutter, perfect song, while follow-ups like new single, while Machine Girl leans more into experimental territory. Homewrecked is an europop-inspired illegally catchy song whose chorus ... read more

fleabag_fideo
100

SICK. TIGHT. A MOTHERFUCKING PUSS. ADELA DIDN'T COME TO PLAY BABY!!!!!

Baby this is the third 10/10 on my list this year. It's so good that I think I might be throwing up because of a good shit trip not because I've listened to something boring and a legit shit. A cunty gag-worthy serve of rave music that has a recognizable hyperpop sexuality but is surprisingly inventive when it blends in together. This is when sex, Sophie-adjacent wobbly beats, and extra outrageous ... read more

Matt8151
90

A masterclass in how to make pop music, one of the best EPs I’ve heard in a while. It has a lot of depth lyrically and production-wise; very unique and weird, yet still something you could hear on the radio, and especially at the club, in a scenario where most electropop/dance records lack concept and deeper meaning

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XRatedboy
NR

For this to be her debut ep there is so much focus and attention to detail that you don’t usually see in newer artists
favs: go, sexonthebeat, finallyapologizing

opalhalo
85

a VOCALIST first of all. SING girl

PsychoHelmet
55

Disappointingly generic, she sounds like any other pop artist vocally, and with all the electropop released in the past year or two, I am just genuinely tired of the sound. I am not understanding the hype for any of this project; it is simply background music.

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Track List

1Superscar
3:14
89
2SexOnTheBeat
2:46
89
3MachineGirl
2:36
82
4Homewrecked
2:54
80
5Go
2:45
84
6DeathByDevotion
3:16
85
7FinallyApologizing
2:21
82
Total Length: 19 minutes
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