Honestly, I've heard a lot of it already and there are some great moments but it hasn't grabbed me by the throat like Art Angels or Visions did before. Maybe that's ok. I keep wanting to call this her MAYA album, but I honestly think MAYA was better and this will probably get better reviews than that anyway for... reasons lol
Maybe I'm crazy but whereas Vulnicura seemed to evoke Homogenic, this song sounds like a continuation of Post.
Think "Headphones", "Cover Me", "You've Been Flirting Again".
That said, those songs were offset by classics like "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" so it'll be interesting to see if this album has the same ebb and flow.
I'll bite! Here are my top ten right now, give or take.
01 Perfume Genius - No Shape
02 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
03 Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
04 Sevdaliza - ISON
05 Sampha - Process
06 The Mountain Goats - Goths
07 Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man
08 Saint Etienne - Home Counties
09 Austra - Future Politics
10 Arca - Arca
I'm certainly not to come out on one side or the other here (though as a fan of their music I am very conflicted on how to feel about all of this), but I think what they're trying to say is something to the effect of everyone having different boundaries and lines of consent.
Again, not mounting this as a defense of anything by any means. I'm just trying to decipher the phrasing myself and that's what I came up with.
The songs so far sound like they'll be revisiting the sound of Good Humor with the thematic heft of their last three albums. This is going to be awesome.
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