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Jul 7, 2025. isn't just a good album, it's a decisively great one, full stop.
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Jul 9, 2025Period is a party-starting good time where our only wish is that it overpoured our shots just a little.
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Jul 3, 2025The songs are all really strong, filled with smart little twists and drops, and funny, self-referential lines.
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Jul 2, 2025Kesha’s taste for pop experimentation is in full flower on (Period.), her indie debut well-timed to the long-brewing mainstream break of the hedonistic, neon-hued, kitchen-sink genre known as hyperpop.
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Jul 3, 2025Not every song on . works, with FREEDOM.’s disco-ish production feeling decidedly amateurish and the songwriting on TOO HARD. leaning towards generic, but there’s still space for a highlight like RED FLAG.. .... Indeed, tracks like this could be the start of a new chapter for Kesha, with more creative freedom and her infectious sense of fun intact.
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Jul 3, 2025The record pleasantly showcases Kesha’s impressive vocal range, emotive delivery and riff performance, but the final song is a spark that serves to highlight the unevenness of the album.
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Jul 7, 2025There are moments of pure spectacle, such as the delightfully absurd accordion-rave lead single ‘Joyride’, and ‘Yippie-Ki-Yay’, an unholy fusion of Def Leppard and Florida Georgia Line. .... ‘Love Forever’, ‘The One’, ‘Too Hard’ are relatively straightforward love songs that don’t reach the vulnerability of albums past. It all builds to the closing track ‘Cathedral’, a spiritual sequel to ‘Praying’.
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Jul 8, 2025In opener “Freedom.” Kesha fugues over twinkling piano and synths, singing “I’ve been waiting for you/Everything’s changed now.” But the simmering disco bass and house-gleaned aesthetics suggest a much more powerful mission statement, and the song devolves into middling party-pop.
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Jul 14, 2025Period sounds like a record trying its best to be happy – the striking highs of something like “Praying” are nowhere to be found on this allegedly unrestrained album.
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Jul 7, 2025Period is an album of lukewarm nostalgic bops, where the few moments of truly interesting artistry are left to languish alone in their respective corners. It’s by no means a poor record if you’re just in it for some lighthearted background party jams.
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Jul 2, 2025It is a return to form purely in a technical sense, faintly hearkening back to the flirty talk-singing and buoyant energy that powered Kesha’s early work but without any of the grimy, bratty charm or propulsive hooks.
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Jul 2, 2025“Glow” and “Two Hard” are the sort of midtempo mush that someone as theatrically unhinged as Kesha is unable to convincingly sell. These tracks feel less like intentional detours and more like dead ends, especially considering the tonal whiplash caused by Period’s erratic sequencing. This results in a listening experience that, while never boring thanks to its scattered impulses, rarely lands with the clarity or conviction that has defined Kesha’s best work.