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Mar 20, 2026A tour-de-force of production chops that reaffirms Grey’s established position as a key auteur in the future of her genre. More Black Mirror than Twin Peaks, ‘U’ is an intimate hyperpop record portraying snowballing isolation, a digital-age pop star’s yearning under the limelight of the techno-infused Anthropocene.
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Mar 23, 2026It’s a scintillating experience, perhaps the moment where underscores fully out-strips her peers, and comes into her own.
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Mar 23, 2026Half the fun is in discovering where Grey takes them from there. “Innuendo” and “Lovefield” both get blasted into trance hyperspace. .... Beneath its high-gloss surface, every detail on U rewards close scrutiny—even its one-letter title.
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Mar 23, 2026It’s technical excellence as a musical product cannot be overstated. For a pop album to be this busy yet possess a pocket as deep and rich as underscores displays here is simply amazing.
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Apr 9, 2026It's clear producer/songwriter April Harper Grey has spent the past few years continuing to sharpen her skills, and, on U, she's as confident and original as ever.
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Mar 20, 2026U hits all the beats of a classic pop record—a choreo-primed single, a power ballad, a post-breakup closure anthem—without overstaying its welcome. It’s glossy and stylized, but it never sacrifices the zoomed-up, post-genre, chaos-prone quirks of her earlier work.
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Mar 23, 2026It’s a confident evolution from her 2020 EP Character Development!, with Grey producing an utterly refined sound that encapsulates the highs of the 2010 pop, bro-step and bubblegum bass eras.
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Mar 20, 2026On U, she finds a clearly-defined, rounded-out identity in her music for the first time, and she delivers the most immediate and the most robust work of her career.
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Mar 20, 2026U is certainly a more interesting, accomplished and better-written pop album than most major pop artists have dished up of late.