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Oct 1, 2025star may not be as sonically dynamic as boy, but it does dig deeper into this strange paranoia that many of his songs feature.
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Apr 4, 2025His 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.
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Apr 4, 2025‘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.
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Apr 4, 2025It’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.
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Apr 4, 2025Star, 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.