Badlands
| Halsey
Badlands
Badlands is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Halsey. It was released on August 28, 2015, by Astralwerks. Badlands debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 97,000 copies. The album was preceded by the release of two singles, "Ghost" and "New Americana". The third single from the album, "Colors", was released on February 9, 2016. -Wikipedia
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The album as a whole works well together and each track tells a story that correlates and is everything that Halsey preaches.
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This is an album that you’ll have on repeat from beginning to end.
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Stage Right Secrets
I 100% recommend giving this album a listen.
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Lindbergh Lookup
Overall, BADLANDS should make the listener become addicted to Halsey and her amazing voice.
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Exepose
It is an album brimming with dark emotion and perches Halsey on the suburbs of mainstream pop, with her soulful lyrics and tearing vocals.
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Media Hype
Badlands is a well-rounded, catchy, and seriously good album.
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Pop Exclusively
Overall, this is actually a really good album.
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Odyssey
It's raw, atmospheric and imaginative.
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MBB Reviews
“Badlands” is a musical escape to a planet where colors are loud and bright, it’s population is happy to have you if you will just be yourself.
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The Batavia Spectator
This album has been there for me through hard times and it has been my escape from it all when I need it most. It has inspired me to be my own person and to not care what others think.
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Melodic Magazine
Halsey is the kind of artist who carries a sense of carelessness that you almost admire with an album like Badlands that you can’t help but leave on repeat.
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The Daily Listening
Badlands starts off with guns blazing.
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Pop Dust
Badlands is a character study of every teenager or young adult who has struggled to come to terms with their own physical cravings and bewitching enslavements.
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The Muse
“Badlands” has a unique, enthralling sound that displays Halsey’s aptitude for singing and songwriting
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Pop Insomniac
Halsey has more than proved herself as a credible alt-pop artist on her mainstream debut album Badlands.
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Garage Music
We aren’t supposed to go to the Badlands, but Halsey brings us there anyway and we let ourselves be taken.
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Thinking Lyrically
Halsey is a rising star and probably a musician with this new record.
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WE PLUG GOOD MUSIC
Listening to Halsey’s first full-length album, Badlands, felt like I was being taken on a journey through her psyche, getting deeper the longer I kept my earphones in.
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Coup De Main
Badlands is an unstoppable onslaught of pop perfection.
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The Michigan Journal
The album was met with huge success, climbing up to the second spot on the Billboard Music alternative music chart.
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Will Not Fade
The music is likable enough.
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All Music
Ultimately, it's all of Halsey's seemingly contradictory elements brought together that lend Badlands such a fascinating topography.
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Watt Pad
For anyone looking for an incredible story, look no further than Badlands
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Southern News
The album is the direct result of a woman empowered.
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Cryptic Rock
Badlands creates a magnificent cocktail of killer vocals, mellow vibes, and Trance-like sounds.
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Alternative Addiction
Halsey’s “Badlands” is a ridiculously good album.
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Pitchfork
The momentum behind Halsey is undeniable, but Badlands mostly falls flat.
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Rolling Stones
Meet your new favorite pop star: 20 years old with a knack for sticky imagery
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Medium
These songs are well-crafted with catchy melodies, beautiful harmonies, and driving rhythms that help them get stuck n your head all day.
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Talk Nerdy With Us
A truly gritty, raw and infectious album
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Coog Radio
Overall this is an incredible album, from the lyrics to the melodies, Badlands draws you in.
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Love is Pop
You will fall in love with the 11 songs on the standard edition. And then you will want more.
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Under the Gun
Badlands as a place itself may be fictional, but the experiences, people and scars it chronicles are very real.
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PPcorn
Badlands is a mesh of gritty, raw, calculated lyrics and a synth-heavy production reminiscent of Chvrches and Lights.
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Her Campus
This album is, in one word, trippy.
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Sputnik
Much like actual badlands, Halsey’s debut album is extremely dry and devoid of life.
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Immortal Reviews
Halsey’s debut is one of the strongest first albums all year.
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Idientry
So, there you have it, folks. Badlands, a long-anticipated arrival of an album, was exactly as amazing as I expected it to be.
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Idobi
This album is brilliant
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