lordRibs

The album follows a well paced and tight nit narrative, always peeling back a new layer with each track. The opening, "West end girl" is classic lily Allen that hard pivots mid track taking a more theatrical approach, melding old with new in a fun approach. She's giving reggae inspired beats, ethereal and spacy vibes, and classic tongue and cheek. But I must ask, who is madeline?

The production (the closest we will ever get to a rock album from Taylor?) and Bridges really sell this album imo. The choruses are strong, some of the verses are Luke warm but the word play helps.

Clearly a sister album to Clancy, and while there are some stand out moments on this projects, the tracks blend into eachother more than the previous project. It may be the similarity in sound to the previous project, something the group has more or less avoided up to this point. Not a bad project at all, but it only left me whelmed.

Sounds so much like the previous project with a tad more of the Grammy stage performance vibe thrown in. Not awful, just a tad boring and left me waiting for the next evolution.