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Originally posted by professor2000
I actually agree with this.
Armor On was so forward...GH was great, but a little more commercial than what I expected. And I liked that AO was shorter too...straight to the point. Left me wanting more.
Glad she got that memo.
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Armor On is the best produced album of the decade so far. There's really nothing else quite like it.
I understand why with
Goldenheart she wanted to put more focus on her vocals & 'songcraft' (i.e. making august sweeping epics that have more an eye to 80s power ballads than getting down and dirty), but I think she's at her best when she's working in tandem with mindblowingly complex propulsive rhythms (which was the case with
Whiteout and
A Tell Tale Heart as well as on
Armor On).
That being said considering (in her own words) she's first and foremost a dancer at heart I doubt she'll ever stray too far away from a rhythmic focus and plus, she actually made
Armor On after
Goldenheart so I'm going to consider the trajectory still on the up right now. I'm not disheartened.