Overview

• Critics from the Evening Standard, Daily Mail and Rolling Stone commend the album’s range, emotional bite and confident vocal presence.
• The record refines a blend of 1940s-style jazz, bossa nova and confessional pop, with songs framing time, love and the disorientation of one’s twenties.
• Reviewers single out Tough Luck, the bossa-toned Lover Girl and the Icelandic lyric turn in Forget‑Me‑Not as standout moments.
• Aaron Dessner collaborates on Castle in Hollywood and A Cautionary Tale, with regular co-writer Spencer Stewart and violinist Junia Lin also featured.
• Rolling Stone highlights the arc from hopeful opener Clockwork to turbulent closer Sabotage, noting arrangements that amplify underlying tensions.