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May 18, 2023Gag Order comes loaded with deliciously weird and compellingly urgent hooks.
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May 22, 2023Never has Kesha's music felt this inspiringly rich. It has all the potential of once again making her a staple on the music scene, and this time even beyond pop.
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May 22, 2023Though interludes from the late guru Ram Dass feel a little hokey, overall Gag Order is polished, powerful and affirming.
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May 18, 202313 scorched-earth tracks that present an artist pulling herself back up from the brink of madness. The most striking element of Kesha's latest is the sound. ... She has found a psychedelic middle ground between the sleazy synths of her 20212 breakthrough, Warrior, and the rootsy and Southern rock of her past two. [May 2023, p.73]
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May 18, 2023In Rubin—as much a guru as he is a producer—Kesha’s found a collaborator willing to indulge her spiritualist tangents. But neither the ideas nor the audio clips feel fully integrated into a broader theme of the album. Her ambivalence is more potent.
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May 19, 2023Sadly, co-producer Rick Rubin’s minimalist philosophy stifles many of the tracks. ... When the album does decide to break free, however, the results are stunning.
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May 18, 2023Despite some slipshod sequencing and periodic bouts of pretension, the album manages to articulate a working thesis for Kesha’s artistry that exists independently from the apparatus of purely commercial exhibitionism.
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Positive: 116 out of 128
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Mixed: 6 out of 128
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Negative: 6 out of 128
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May 19, 2023Her last album album under Kemosabe. Amazing work, let there be light for Kesha