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  • Summary: The first full-length release on the Interscope label for Los Angeles-based artist 2hollis features influences of EDM, pop, hip-hop, and trap music.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Oct 1, 2025
    83
    star may not be as sonically dynamic as boy, but it does dig deeper into this strange paranoia that many of his songs feature.
  2. ‘Star’ is his most cinematic and widescreen work yet. Clean, cavernous sound design directs all attention to his speak-sing drawl, while ear-candy sampling – such as the pitter-patter of rainfall and indulgent vrooooooms of a race car – makes for effective world-building.
  3. 80
    His fourth album, his first for a major, sounds like the internet: a pummelling mashup of hyperpop, post-Playboi Carti trap and tweaky club music also indebted to underground Swedes Drain Gang.
  4. Apr 4, 2025
    74
    It’s ambitious, stadium-sized, and risky—the sound of Hollis wringing his newfound star power for all it’s worth. Hollis’ two brief stabs at building up star’s world through balladry feel extraneous by comparison.
  5. Apr 4, 2025
    60
    Star, though, aims for the pop charts, and with supercharged tracks that rarely exceed the three-minute mark, delivering hooks like a well-trained artillery strike. There’s a simplicity to them from a songwriting perspective that borders on primitive.