Dr. Seuss is trashed at the club—can you give him his phone back? He he won’t send that horny text he’s been drafting: “I want you inside my house/And I want you inside my blouse.” Wait—that’s a lyric from ’s new album a 33-minute migraine that boasts such rhymes as, “Wake up and I’m sad/Out late acting bad” and, “You might think I’m a thot/You’re right, I’ve been thinking a lot.
” Harmony Tividad, a songwriter who once penned simple, aching music as half of indie-pop duo , is now a pop performance artist in the guise of a disaffected party girl. She seeks partly to indict superficiality, and partly to indulge it. The performance could have been interesting—too bad there’s not more art involved.
is Tividad’s first full-length release since with Girlpool collaborator Avery Tucker in 2022. It follows her 2023 EP where the eclectic electronic palette was alternately dreamy and dancey. As Harmony sang about “angel kisses” through iridescent, vocoder, you could imagine taking some pills and spacing out to the .
But the bassy, bratty “Shoplifting From Nike” offered a better taste of what was to come: “I get so insufferable,” Harmony sang over sawtooth bass, “It makes me whole.” is, in many respects, insufferable. The thumping beats, noise sweeps, and Auto-Tuned vocals take cues from and 3OH!3, embracing a trashy throwback sound that musicians like have brought to the 2020s.
In doses, this can be fun and sexy. On it’s relentless.