It is quite crazy jumps that Sasami Ashworth puts between her albums. If her self-titled debut from 2019 was still a finely dabbed lesson in melancholy-hurried indie pop, she revealed a preference for heavy metallic ones on Squeeze, which she brought live with a metal band.
And now actually: a pop album in wide wall format that, according to its own statements (and audibly), was inspired by time dance pop plates such as Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale or Lady Gagas Born This Way. No question, here someone is pushing on the big stage. And rightly so, because the bombast, with which Sasami circles the eternal pop leit motif love into all its diversity, is definitely one of the good variety.
Between Lana-Del-Rey-Grandezza (“Nothing but a sad face on”), tasty emo-over Schwang à la Beabadoobee (“For the Weekend”) and lustfully bumped funding fusions of dance pop, Schweinerock and van-Halen-Bäbenen (“Love Makes You Do Crazy Things”) hides this album) Refreshing overwhelming potential for overwhelming, to which it is certainly not just great car scooter.
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