“The British singer’s crisply rendered, competently hooky second album promises a more personal self-portrait, but she ends up disappearing into vague songwriting and anodyne dance-pop production.”
“There are moments on Anne-Marie’s delayed follow-up to 2018’s hit-heavy, platinum-selling debut, Speak Your Mind, where she seems to almost disappear. Front-loaded with guests, from YouTuber-turned-rapper KSI to ex-One Directioner Niall Horan, and zigzagging across genres (trap, UK garage, MOR pop-rock, to name but three), Therapy often feels unanchored; like a generic hits playlist on shuffle. Ki”