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Album: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power: Tbh, this was a rougher rate for me than most, but I'm still glad I did it especially because this was an awesome record to discover

The Tradition: 8 Music for a video game trailer that shows zero gameplay

Bells in Santa Fe: 8 Sick repeating keys, kinda plateaued though it made the transition to the next song pretty dope

Easier than Lying: 11 Oh baby she's got the atmospheric riffs, tight drumming, and explosive choruses

Lilith: 5 Just kind of there

Girl is a Gun: 8 Something something Tyler the Creator idk i wasn't here yet

You asked for this: 10 Alt rock goodness, holy moly

Darling: 10 That guitar sounds heavenly

1121: 8 Big missed opportunity to make this the clear best song in the rate so everybody could make the easiest Add An 11 to a Song Title imaginable

honey: 10 Halsey made Gay Bubblegrunge???

Whispers: 8 Thought she said she was flying to White Castle

I am not a woman, I’m a god: 9 Oh yeah that back third especially has got some Nine Inch Nails DNA in it

The lighthouse: 8 A bit more bite in that guitar and I'd be all over this

Ya’aburnee: 9 This album has done really well at the 1-2 instruments & Halsey's voice to create space sections

People disappear here: 7 If this somehow wins I'm calling a conspiracy by Big Target

Album: Chemtrails Over The Country Club: Passed the Zoning Out on a Night Train Ride test

White Dress: 6 What if we kissed 😳 at the Men in Music Business conference 👨‍💼💋

Chemtrails Over The Country Club: 10 Poetic cinema

Tulsa Jesus Freak: 8 Kinda trance inducing

Let Me Love You Like A Woman: 5 This was the lead single?

Wild At Heart: 9 Feels like camcorder footage of a California coast road trip

Dark But Just A Game: 7 Great use of (fuck it)

Not All Who Wander Are Lost: 8 Centers an entire song around a single pun, she's just like me fr

Yosemite: 3 Felt like forever

Breaking Up Slowly: 5

Dance Till We Die: 9 Now why did I assume she was shouting out Stevie Wonder

For Free: 7 Awaiting the eventual full Lana covers album

Album: Solar Power: There's flashes here and there of the good stuff I want out of Lorde, but it just drags so hard so often. Sparse in the limpest way possible.

The Path: 7 We're all on the beach living our lives and waving our arms to the music

Solar Power: 8 Your own, Prettier, Jesus

California: 5 A song about a love/hate relationship with California? In a popheads rate? No way

Stoned at the Nail Salon: 6 The good(?) news is once you hit your late 20s/early 30s you'll probably grow right back into it

Fallen Fruit: 10 Easily the most alive this album has sounded, love the instrumentals on this, the moment the acoustic guitar comes in rules

Secrets from a Girl (Who’s Seen it All): 8 Robyn outro carry

The Man with the Axe: 4 Reading the lyrics alongside and I want to like it, but this is just so lifeless

Dominoes: 4

Big Star: 8 Tbh this'd probably hit harder if it wasn't in the middle of an incredibly dull stretch

Leader of a New Regime: 4

Mood Ring: 8 "Oh, so it's satire." Saying this, he casually threw aside a low score

Oceanic Feeling: 6 Second half's pretty solid (edit: I did not realize there was three minutes left in this song)

Helen of Troy: 6

Hold No Grudge: 6 Finishing with yet another song here I wish I could hear outside of this weak sound

Album: Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land: I'm gonna guess this is a bad first Marina album, huh

Ancient Dreams In a Modern Land: 6 What are these Tim Burton ass melodies

Venus Fly Trap: 7

Man’s World: 9 Insert misandry video here

Purge The Poison: 7 Pop punk band writing showtunes energy

Highly Emotional People: 8 She hasn't read my past rate comments, I actually cry all the time

New America: 6 :salute:

Pandora’s Box: 6

I Love You But I Love Me More: 9 Not the song with the least social messaging being my fave off the album

Flowers: 7

Goodbye: 6 Really good piano strikes

Happy Loner: 4 A real nothingburger

Pink Convertible: 6

Free Woman: 6

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