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Sep 4, 2024Sonic debauchery laced with moments of introspection, The Dare’s debut is worth the hype.
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Sep 4, 2024His debut also conjures the rabble rousing of early Blur through a Peaches-meets-xcx lens. As a whole, ‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ is a beaming and brilliant moment for both The Dare and its inspired take on historical noughties pop.
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Sep 9, 2024What’s Wrong With New York? is a gift horse I wouldn’t dare look in the mouth: it’s euphoric, it’s massive, it’s funny, it’s blissfully unironic, it’s finally fucking pop. I wouldn’t overthink it.
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Sep 5, 2024Tastefully rambunctious, ‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ is a sonic melting pot of millennial and Gen Z sounds. With retro drums and abrasive synth bases, it’s a performance-geared record filled with pulsating bass lines, perfect for making bad decisions in a sweaty basement.
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Sep 4, 2024The Dare brushed up his production and lyrical pageantry for What’s Wrong With New York?. The result is a mixed bag of bite-size party anthems and wearisome earworms that provoke even if you’re not looking for provocation.
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Sep 9, 2024What’s Wrong With New York? isn’t inventive or texturally weird enough to geek the analog synth heads, and its hooks aren’t massive or sticky enough to work as pure pop either. The embrace of pretentiousness and artifice comes at the expense of real emotional complexity and memorably witty writing.