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Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

Her lyrical ability to write a double entendre needs to be studied in a lab Evening Standard

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

Can an old dog learn new tricks? Maybe, but Carpenter performs the same ones. “You think that I’m gonna fuck with your head?” she asks at the start of one song, “Well, you’re absolutely right.” Not a great joke if you already know the punchline Northern Transmissions

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

It tells you over and over again who she is — horny, playful and confident — without giving the listener the thrill of really feeling much of anything at all Exclaim

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

There are some sensational songs on the pop star’s follow-up to ‘Short n’ Sweet’, but too much of the rest struggles for lift-off The Independent

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

If possible, the album is even hornier than its predecessor Slant Magazine

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

Aptly closing with ‘Goodbye’ this is a record that feels punchy and incisive – Sabrina Carpenter’s next move is assured, intentional, and side-steps the pitfalls placed along the way. Her time is now Clash

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

The controversy-courting star is in perfect alignment with producer Jack Antonoff, on detailed and utterly delightful tracks that make her previous hit album seem rudimentary in comparison The Guardian

Sabrina Carpenter  Man’s Best Friend

The brightest star in pop basks in soul-piercing honesty — and has a lot of fun doing it Consequence Of Sound

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Williams has crafted an album about letting go and finding a way to move forward honestly, and perhaps most importantly on her own terms All Music

Blood Orange  Essex Honey

Dev Hynes translates nebulous abstraction without veering into didacticism or appearing overwrought. In his hands, grief becomes amorphous, resisting cliche and expectations—much like the artist himself Paste Magazine

Blood Orange  Essex Honey

Hynes doesn’t offer immediate catharsis or easy answers. Instead, he provides something equally valuable: an honest documentation of processing grief with such sophistication that his individual journey becomes widely resonant Clash

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

It’s an unboundless exploration of a life lived under the scrutiny of misogyny and in the public eye from one of our time’s most creative and fearless artists Kerrang!

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

The songs being tied together in this 90s MySpace format make it all that more personal, as if you’re sifting through the artist’s personal diary Clash

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Hayley Williams powers through grief to deliver a solo masterpiece Rolling Stone

Hayley Williams  Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

The Paramore vocalist’s new set of solo songs is a bold, epic direction for the best rock frontwoman of the millennium Paste Magazine