Just listened to the entire thing, Just a Kiss is insane Best non single from the album! I don’t understand the mastering on several tracks, it hurts to hear Everything But You like this-especially next to Stars In Your Heart’s perfection. Electric Heaven is better in the verses, then the mastering in the chorus gets weird. She needs to release the stems & let the fans fix & remix it, several tracks unfortunately feel rushed. I hope she ditches the David guy & works with Oliver + someone new on the follow up.
Top 5 (excluding American Girl):
Forever 21 (iconic)
Just a Kiss (incredible)
Jenny (funky)
Sleepwalker (brilliant)
Hot City (hawt)
Skips:
Snatched
DGMGF
8/10 stars, I’m excited for physical copies
Edit: I listened to the lossless master & it’s much more palatable. I think the lyric changes in Everything But You were jarring at first, but I can actually enjoy it in hi-res. I’ll re-access my review later. It’s easy to have demoitis for the originals since we’ve lived with them for so long, I’m truly grateful it’s out & monetized
Edit again: So I’ve been tweaking the hi-res files & the probably really is in the mastering alot of these are actually GREAT. I actually like Worst In Me now! Fixed Electric Heaven too, I’m gonna sit with the record for a bit & re-rate it next week