The future starts now for self-isolating Dua Lipa fans, after the star put out her brand-new album a week early.
Future Nostalgia, which features composing contributions from Tove Lo and Madonna’s manufacturer Stuart Cost, was advanced after it dripped online.
Early reviews have been radiant, with critics calling the record “viscerally dazzling” and “pop excellence”.
It is now the premier album of 2020 on evaluation aggregation site Metacritic, with an average rating of 92.
With maybe the very best evaluation headline of the year, The Independent called Future Fond memories, “pure sonic spandex”.
” Dua Lipa delivers hard facts to a soundtrack that’s extremely leotard and leg warmers – and there isn’t a duff track on the entire record,” wrote Helen Brown, granting five stars.
The NME offered the exact same top rating, calling the album “powerful pop excellence from a star unafraid to speak her mind”.
” The artist’s spectacular second record tackles sex, inequality and empowerment. And all with a little disco shimmy,” reported Rhian Daly.
The Guardian explained the British-Kosovan vocalist as “a real pop visionary”, granting four stars and applauding Dua for not taking “the easy course” of making an album full of star-studded collaborations.
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