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Title: disappointing
Review: I know there was a long wait. And I also went through an eighteen month period of complete devotion to the vocals stylings and dark poetics of Miss Apple- (Tidal, of course) during which I thought the woman could do no wrong. But with the exception of the title track (in which the lyrics speed-dance through in a gorgeous self-affirming ditty of a song), I found this album to be a great disappointment.Gone the delicate gestures of Tidal, Apple stomps words into her songs with clumsy and over the top imagery. Her melodies and voice are still pretty (I do like the sound of Oh, Sailor) but her poetry seems thinner, falser. Broken-hearted, hate-him-so, "on my knees"- themes she mastered in her previous two albums that lyrically, just don't cut it on this one.A reverting to teen angst that sounds pretty but leaves no mark.
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