Definitely a ride. Very Fun, with grand highlights. Even on the lowlights (Ballin, etc.) the beats are pleasing and fun. An album made better with time.
Really surprisingly nicely produced. Vocals are comforting and the whole thing creates this stylistic blanket of sound. The sampling is used really well and the production makes the album more than the immature lyrics. So solid.
Let down asf. Heavy Rotation is good enough but the rest of the songs are so soulless.
Melodrama is on the list of greatest breakup albums ever. The album cover is so fucking good. Captures perfectly the mindset Lorde is in. The synths throughout intersect with Lorde's vocals perfectly, pulling in and out to emphasize her mental isolation. As a whole, the albums themes of dealing with a breakup through partying, denial, hits so many stages of grief and reflects everything around within Lorde's head. Antonoff's production carries the themes sonically, with heartbeat drums and ... read more
Like . . . whatever. ORANGE is better. Section 5 of this is really great but the rest of it is fine. I think I have to listen to it in a different setting. For now I'm bored.
who gives a fuck about this hamptons white people ass album
it's pretty sonically tight though
O-ROD!!!! this album is either pop punk and fun or kind of sad ballads. I like the power pop punk stuff more, but the ballads as a whole are a lot better than on SOUR. better lyrics, better production. I wish she would go far into pop punk and make a whole album of stuff like that, expanding on the experimentation she does on a couple of songs.
Overall I would say that this is an experimental and new step album for Olivia, and there's a lot of directions she can go from here. But this doesn't ... read more
definitely very rich and well done. seems like a debut that could be followed up with an incredible psych rock second album.
black seminole, the ride, drive ME crazy, and the last track are incredible.
it's alright. The songs are good mostly but a little generic and the vibes are off. jaykub is nice.
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