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Apr 29, 2016Honey suffers when its producers smooth out their rougher edges to accommodate Katy’s chart-star status.
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Apr 28, 2016The narrative she introduced with her first single Katy on a Mission--the story of a prospective dancefloor tryst--still dominates, and it’s a subject that barely contains the emotional mileage to sustain a single song, let alone a whole body of work. Her vocal melodies, meanwhile, can feel almost abrasive in their mediocrity. Instead, it’s left to the production to provide the wit, amusement and emotion.
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UncutApr 27, 2016Honey's intentions are noble but the results are mixed. [Jun 2016, p.69]
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Apr 25, 2016A cast list as long as Honey’s inevitably produces a patchwork. Some tunes are so uneventful you wonder why they bothered.
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Q MagazineApr 22, 2016This is an album you need to be enveloped by--the louder it is, the better it sounds. [Jun 2016, p.115]
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Apr 22, 2016This is not the most cohesive body of work, granted, but oh man does it have some total bangers.
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May 13, 2016Honey nonetheless comes across as an attention-grabbing experiment more than it does a third proper full-length.
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May 9, 2016If it were not for Katy's distinctive voice--which she gloriously wields with an Aguilera-like ferocity during the last forty seconds or so of each track--Honey would not survive its own sweetness. At certain moments, however, the energies between Katy and the producers mesh just right, resulting in alchemic varieties of urban pop that glow brighter after each listen.
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May 5, 2016Honey, when it works at least, is the sound of piecing together the night before: a love letter to not making it home, to the Tequila salt still stuck to your hand, to hands brushing under the cover of the smoke machine. Unfortunately, half of the time, it says precisely nothing and if that unquestionable potential is to be realised, Kathleen Brien has to make a choice.
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Apr 28, 2016With nearly 20 production collaborators, the record has plenty of invention--and way too many cooks in the kitchen. ... [A] busy, unfocused record.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 18
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Mixed: 5 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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Aug 27, 2016