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Apr 20, 2026Altogether, it has the faintly dispiriting sheen of something commissioned by its own success. Ware is deft enough that the album still plays best when it coalesces her 2010s crooner poise with the 2020s reassertion of her pop bona fides.
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Apr 16, 2026An album that, for all its kitschy moments, is very well written and well made. It lacks a banger quite as undeniable as its predecessor’s Free Yourself – a song that, in a sane world, would have been No 1 for months – but it definitely doesn’t want for great melodies or choruses.
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Apr 17, 2026Besides that show-stopping moment [on "16 Summers"] and those other brief, fleeting teases of disco-induced euphoria, many of the songs off Superbloom ultimately feel like polished B-sides, frequently activating a kind of deja vú in how similar their presentations are to Ware’s previous work.