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Oct 28, 2016Lo sounds as if she’s in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. And what a beautiful and messy one it is.
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Oct 26, 2016It’s pop music of the highest calibre, music for the head, heart, feet and everywhere in between.
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Oct 26, 2016Though this cache of innovations is often depleted, when utilized correctly they wield enough ingenuity to distinguish Nilsson from the rest of the pack.
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Q MagazineNov 15, 2016This is intelligent pop freighted with emotional complexity. [Jan 2017, p.108]
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Oct 27, 2016Some listeners may not warm to Lo’s persona, but her songwriting skills are difficult to fault (she’s also co-written hits for Ellie Goulding and Girls Aloud on the side). Aided by collaborators including Lorde producer Joel Little and Max Martin’s protégé Ilya Salmanzadeh, she keeps the hooks coming throughout.
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Oct 26, 2016Lady Wood isn’t an album made for radio or easy digestion. The hooks are there but, like Tove herself, they aren’t succumbing expectations.
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Jan 3, 2017While there aren't as many standout singles this time around, the Swedish singer impressively maintains a consistent tone throughout, and its two-part structure adds to its listenability as an album experience.
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Dec 2, 2016For all the explosive choruses and repeated synth trills, Lady Wood, a still-wonderful pop album, falls just shy of being truly great, from saying something truly memorable.
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Nov 1, 2016Lady Wood is short, but Lo finds ample darkness to plumb.
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Oct 28, 2016Lady Wood is admirably lean and tightly focused, and though it doesn’t boast confessionals on the order of Like a Prayer‘s, it offers a peek inside the psyche of a smart, burgeoning young star.
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Oct 28, 2016She's especially good making odd, even uncomfortable phrases seem as natural as hip-hop bons mots.
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Nov 3, 2016Lady Wood proves Tove Lo is one of the more interesting characters in what is often a personality-less genre, but unfortunately, her unique perspective is diluted by fairly humdrum electro-pop production.
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Nov 2, 2016Songs like these and "Keep It Simple" make the most of Lo's big voice and personality on an album that, despite its provocative title, often feels more straightforward than Queen of the Clouds did.
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Oct 31, 2016Lady Wood is, if anything, classier than Queen of the Clouds. But it might not sell so well, in that it lacks the sleazy catnip--the sex clubs, the self-abasement--displayed in the latter’s defining singles.
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Oct 27, 2016This album celebrates sex with an infectious joie de vivre, while tracks like Cool Girl--a sarcastic ode to no-strings romance--prove she’s not just posturing.
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Oct 26, 2016For this album, she made musical choices that hold back the songs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 338 out of 375
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Mixed: 13 out of 375
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Negative: 24 out of 375
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