2.9 - I’m missing the buzzsaw guitars. Karen O has given herself a broader and quieter palette to explore adult feelings. Mostly songs like “Soft Shock” tread water in a liminal space. I wonder if most of these songs are ever going to go somewhere and then the strings swell and they’re over. Humph. And there’s that atrocious “Off with his head!” song that saturated every Spotify playlist I listened to for the past decade. The album ends on a high with the gorgeous “Hysteric” and “Little Shadow” but by that point I’m all but checked out.