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- Summary: The second full-length release from pop producer Danny L Harle features guest appearances by Clairo, Kacha, Dua Lipa, Julia Michaels, Mnek, Oklou, Pinkpantheress, and Caroline Polachek.
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- Record Label: XL Recordings
- Genre(s): Pop
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Feb 12, 2026The album is intense, emotional, energetic. It feels beautiful to be invited into Harle’s world and the way his mind works.
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Feb 12, 2026His most cohesive work to date, finding parity in both its nostalgia and its modernity, and yes, through its forward-thinking and innovative collaborators. It’s a dance-pop album in parts, and a creative powerhouse in others.
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Feb 17, 2026Cerulean is an uplifting and adventurous record from an artist who understands pop music.
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Feb 12, 2026It's possible that hyperpop purists and longtime Harle fans will wince at the sanded-down edges and softened tones that make up this album — go listen to "Boing Beat" or "Interlocked" for an ungentle reminder of how bonkers Harlecore remains a half-decade a later. And yet, Cerulean is undeniably fun, and cements Harle's standing as a singular artist in the world of progressive pop.
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Feb 12, 2026Caroline Polachek fares best of all Harle’s features; in both “Azimuth” and “On and On,” she iterates a dancefloor diva more at home at Camelot than, say, either the Paradise Garage or Pacha, and Harle really sounds like he’s having fun honoring her commitment to the bit. Other vocals fail to emulsify.
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Feb 18, 2026Cerulean, while technically masterful, is just a fine, pleasant dream to pass the time.
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Feb 12, 2026If you view the days when Cascada, Kelly Llorenna and the Trance Nation compilations bestrode the charts as a nonpareil high point in pop history, fill your boots. For the rest of us, it’s an experience that’s sugary and intense, the kind that may cause you to involuntarily grit your teeth.