Critic
Iris Calder
A New York-based pop critic focused on theatrical hooks, visual-era singles, and the strange glamour of internet-born pop stardom.
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ANNA / JUICY GLOW
ANNA Turns Gloss Into Structure on JUICY GLOW
Her first mini album rarely confuses shine for substance, even when it occasionally lingers too lovingly on its own lacquered surfaces.
8.1
OSSER / PUNCTURE
PUNCTURE Draws Blood, Then Looks Away
PUNCTURE has the right title and the wrong amount of nerve. It draws the outline of injury, then keeps looking away before the bruise darkens.
6.4
LRON / deep in space (feat. Post Malone)
Deep in Space Sends Two Stars Into Separate Orbits
A LRON and Post Malone collaboration should feel gravitational. This one is handsome, but too often it sounds like two stars passing without changing each other.
5.9
FiVe / LOVIS DREAM
FiVe Dream in Formation, Before the Edges Hardened
LOVIS DREAM catches FiVe before efficiency smoothed out their fingerprints. Its sweetness is sometimes naive, but it is rarely anonymous.
7.6