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Maybe I'm a just Lorde apologist, but while Virgin may not quite live up to the impossibly high bar set by The Lorde herself with Pure Heroine and Melodrama, it’s still a good album. Had it been released by any other indie/alt act, it would probably have been extremely well received, instead of being labelled as decent-to-good but with an asterisk.
With Solar Power and now this album, Lorde is clearly not trying to recapture that same zeitgeisty, boundary-pushing ... read more
Very nice sounding but feels like it never really gets to where it wants to go. Harvest Sky is 10/10 though.
Indie rock is SO back y'all - that's what I thought upon hearing Friko's first album, thawing my jaded younger-millennial heart. This one is not quite as immediately compelling, but it still rises to meet the (insanely) high expectations; or, at the very least, avoids the dreaded sophomore slump.
The strident scrappiness, the hooky melodies, and the *yearning* are still there, just writ large: more immersive and sweeping, yet also more introspective. I understand that the ... read more
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90+ - All-timer
80+ - Incredible
70+ - Great
60+ - Decent
50+ - Boring (complimentary)
40+ - Boring (derogatory)
30+ - Disappointing
20+ - Have you no shame?
10+ - Geneva Convention
0+ - Calling my lawyers
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