5/10
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Case Study 01 sounds much less polished and labored over than Freudian—perhaps in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle—but, more often than not, the results are less than electric.
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Bombastic production isn’t enough to save Help Us Stranger’s often shabby songwriting.
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Gold & Grey‘s awful production overshadows its handful of songwriting peaks.
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Holly Herndon’s new album is partially aided by A.I. and features some creative, futuristic art pop pieces, but there are plenty of half-baked experiments as well.
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Flamagra mostly sounds like a hodgepodge of ideas FlyLo has already explored on previous efforts, and what surprises it does bring are hit-and-miss.
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Rammstein’s first studio album in 10 years falls apart after a promising first leg.
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U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
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CrasH Talk sounds strangely dated and is a disappointingly safe effort from Q following Blank Face.
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The songwriting on Social Cues is far too tame to live up to the album’s dark backstory.
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Persona is missing the dramatic punch of BTS’s previous work.
