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A Complicated Woman

Self Esteem

A Complicated Woman

Third album of experimental pop from former Slow Club member Rebecca Lucy Taylor

ADM rating[?]

8.0

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
25/04/2025
US Release date
25/04/2025
  1. 10.0 |   musicOMH

    Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s third album takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10
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  2. 10.0 |   The Skinny

    Self Esteem recommends listening on her third album under the stage name, and we're inclined to agree
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  3. 10.0 |   DIY

    Her most concentrated and burning record
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  4. 10.0 |   Dork

    Self Esteem shoots from the hip, strikes at the heart, and sends you on a journey to the centre of her soul. Turns out the third time really is the charm
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  5. 10.0 |   God Is In The TV

    With A Complicated Woman, Self Esteem proves once again that nobody else is doing what she’s doing right now – and perhaps nobody ever has
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  6. 10.0 |   Rolling Stone UK

    Liberating and life-affirming pop sermons abound on the third album from Rebecca Lucy Taylor
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  7. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    She’s been quoted as saying she wanted to take things "stadium" - and she totally has
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  8. 9.0 |   Far Out

    A sexy, searing celebration of femininity
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  9. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    Don't let the bubblegum lightness obscure her visionary talent. Print edition only
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  10. 8.0 |   Clash

    Self Esteem has returned with one of the most important albums of 2025
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  11. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Self Esteem steps into a more grounded and rangy perspective. She’s overcome numerous challenges. She’s learned to live in the world and her own skin. She’s free
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  12. 7.7 |   Beats Per Minute

    Like the puritanical/Handmaid’s Tale artwork depicts, Taylor is screaming into the void, a pitch black nothingness that may or may not respond. But we do hear her; the void sings back and we gather around her, because this is what community does
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  13. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Taylor is a fantastic vocalist, and A Complicated Woman plays to that strength
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  14. 7.0 |   Uncut

    A predominantly female choir features throughout, boosting Taylor's crises of confidence on "Focus Is Power" and "What Now" into communal rallying cries. But there is fun here too. Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   Mojo

    There's something of the counsellor's couch about these songs, a record that trembles between acute self-awareness, self-laceration and self-preservation in its quest for "the deep blue OK". Print edition only

  16. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    After her big breakthrough and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new album – to fascinating and confusing effect
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  17. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Rebecca Lucy Taylor returns with a fiery new album exploring fame, dependent partners and empowerment
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  18. 6.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Prioritise Pleasure, in its snarling ferocity, began with a pack of women barking, shrieking to ward off male prey. A Complicated Woman is more of a whimper
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  19. 4.8 |   Pitchfork

    The UK star repeats some of her breakout album’s formula but little of its lacerating insight on a record where the Big Feminist Statements feel frustratingly basic
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