The album commits a mortal pop sin: It’s kind of boring.
The album lacks the clarity of the musician’s best work but still feels like a return to form.
The band spends much of the album’s half-hour runtime reliving the past.
The music is presented about as unironically as the singer’s views on marriage.
For better and worse, the rapper’s fourth studio album is the personification of despair.
The album feels more like a product for mass consumption than a showcase of the rapper’s skills.
The album doesn’t feel overworked, and largely sounds like a band playing live in a room.
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The rapper’s ambitions are grand, but the album attempts to do a lot while saying little.
The album defies easy categorization, which ultimately offers a welcome challenge.
The song finds the singer falling back on macabre imagery and brash EDM stylings.
The singer proves to be a less than great impersonator…and that’s mostly a good thing.
The album is easily the rapper’s most giddy, momentum-building effort to date.
The band has reconciled their past and are determined to forge a new direction.
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The video sees the artist slipping into various characters across a series of vignettes.
The album is the singer’s most ingratiating collection of dance-pop songs since Aphrodite.
The album feels alternately vivid and vaguely sketched.
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A companion piece that’s just as reflective of the zeitgeist as its parent album.