They're waiting too long to kick the beats in.

Too much pensive, angsty warbling for the first 3/4.

Last track - To Be Honest.

I like the Guardian review where they just give up half way through.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/11/christine-and-the-queens-paranoia-angels-true-love-review-heavy-emotions-and-heavenly-longing-madonna

Again, way way too late to start doing things like beats and guitars.

Nightjar wrote:

They're waiting too long to kick the beats in.

Too much pensive, angsty warbling for the first 3/4.

This is the 1 LP highlights album.

Larts song.

This reeks of single.


As do I.

Get it?

It is over.

It was classy but devoid of interesting moments.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.

I shall give it 2 stars.

Was the guitarist only contracted to play the last 45 seconds of the songs?

Over.

Dunno, it just seemed to 90s been there done that Massive Attack for goalposts isn't it?

And that was just the good bits lol.

Hmn...

Never an embarrassing moment, but plenty of dull ones.

It's like they were deliberately holding it back for some kind of dramatic, archly artistic effect.

For me, that did not work at all.

They probably don't want to be classed in a more conspicuous class of pop, but IMO they need to 'let slip the beats of war' a bit more.

Ultimately, there was just that one song that I'd classify as actually good.

A song that I might just download for free on Soulseek pay £1 on BandCamp for.

Don't forget that was just the highlights album, there's 2/3 of the full album to explore!