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Monotony tipping into facelessness—and at times outright tastelessness. An extremely mediocre album, on par with Reputation. How do you make something like this with the very best producers? Taylor is mired in a swamp of her own recycled tracks.

Touted as “the best album since 1989,” it offers nothing but an “album made for the sake of an album.” A diss track at Charli? Girl, she’ll wipe off the venomous spit and keep walking. “The Life of the ... read more

Pop that hits reset: these tracks pull Arca’s glacial drama into The Prodigy’s kinetic rush, borrow Flume’s polished gleam and Die Antwoord’s snarl—not as a citation checklist, but as Larsson’s own mythology. Caroline Polachek on backing vocals isn’t a cameo for the name; she’s a luminous counterpoint that adds lift and gravity. The production crackles, the hooks stick, the pauses breathe—the record holds its tension to the very end.
9/10

Making a "pop album" doesn't necessarily mean going into rap and RnB

The strangest and most controversial album of this year. It's not typical. Unlike the others. The aesthetics of the 2000s is very fascinating. But it alone is not enough. The tracks themselves on the album are dull, they lack brightness. In some places you get the impression that you are listening to a collection of ringtones.

5/10.