electropop
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Reputation focuses more on the pop star narrative than it does actual pop songs.
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UK pop singer Rina Sawayama teams up with Clarence Clarity for the most vibrant, colorful, and instantly catchy pop EP of the year.
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Weezer indulge in millennial pop cliches on their most sugar-sweet album yet, Pacific Daydream.
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Fever Ray returns in a diminished capacity with a long-awaited sophomore album.
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Poppy’s debut album is a good collection of pop songs, but doesn’t quite live up to her unique Internet personality.
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Alice Glass brings back the original appeal and energy of Crystal Castles and comes into her own as a solo artist with this self-titled debut EP.
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On her sophomore album Melodrama, Lorde makes a few Top 40 concessions, but shows a ton of promise with the stylistic and formal risks she does take.
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Witness finds Katy Perry heading in exciting new sonic and lyrical directions, but is sometimes held back by Katy indulging in safer, staler sounds and her usual cliches.
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One More Light is a complete and utter betrayal of everything that made Linkin Park even remotely appealing to begin with.
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Poppy has done the Poppiest thing imaginable and created a love song for her computer, and of course there’s a video attached to it that has that Poppy aesthetic. We’ve reached peak levels of Poppy, people. I love it.