Blue Lips
| Tove Lo
Blue Lips
Blue Lips is the third studio album by Swedish singer Tove Lo. It was released on 17 November 2017 by Island Records. Blue Lips is considered the second half of a two-piece concept album that describe "highs, lows and ultimate demise of a relationship."Its chapters "Light Beams" and "Pitch Black" succeed the chapters "Fairy Dust" and "Fire Fade" from her previous album Lady Wood (2016). -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Of a piece with last year’s Lady Wood, the Swedish pop singer’s new album chronicles the death of a doomed, passionate love affair. It makes a powerful statement about female sexuality in the process.
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Rolling Stone
Tove Lo Continues Dark Lust Saga on ‘Blue Lips’.
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Cryptic Rock
While it does not contain as many of her usually drug-riddled, psychedelic junky pop singles as past albums, it shows a growth and artistic cultivation that looks good on her.
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DIY Mag
Like Tove Lo herself, Blue Lips isn't perfect; it has a predilection towards being over produced. Thematically, though, her honesty about her imperfections is what makes all so irresistible.
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The Guardian
Solid if formulaic, Blue Lips peaks with unfaltering vocals and the kind of humid, polished production that would make Jack Antonoff jealous.
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Vulture
Tove Lo’s Blue Lips Is the Best Album of Her Career.
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Irish Times
Blue Lips feels like the end of a night, when everything that once sparkled under the disco ball is now revealed under brash and unforgiving lights as rock bottom.
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Stereogum
None of these tracks will grab you like “Disco Tits,” a song that represents Tove’s dance-pop phase at its best, but together they function as a scaled-back version of the virtuoso pop she perfected on her debut.
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Popfection
If there is one thing that Blue Lips has proven is that Tove Lo is right now being the IKEA of pop, releasing the same music over and over without really taking any risk in terms of sound or lyrics.
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Sputnik Music
. It’s packed with color and personality, and the simple-yet-effective approach to songcraft here compliments Tove Lo’s vocals and romantic tales quite well. Let’s just hope she takes even more risks the next time around for album #4.
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Michigan Daily
with Blue Lips (lady wood phase II), Tove Lo delivers a dark, electronic album that reaches for emotional depth at the unfortunate cost of sacrificing its pop appeal.
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A Bit of Pop Music
Can’t wait to hear what she comes up with next because Lo still is one of the most outspoken and exciting pop stars of this generation.
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Music Feeds
Even in the realm of polished pop, Tove keeps it raw. Indeed, ‘Hey You Got Drugs?’ is her wrecking (mirror) ball.
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Medium
Together, this album goes through all of the emotions which pure passion can lead to: happiness, betrayal, sensuality, loneliness.
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Financial Times
The Stockholm singer-songwriter combines sharply conceived dance-pop with uncensored lyrics.
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Redbrick
Her voice sounds incredibly raw and powerful, the melody is infectious and elevates it to a new level – leaving the album on a high (if you excuse my pun).
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Press Play OK
Straight-up: our favourite pop provocateur doesn’t deviate from her own formula much on her brilliantly-titled new album, but it’s so hard to even want to stage an intervention when it sounds this good.
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The Courier Online
Blue Lips isn’t exceptional, and yet it is very much an entertaining listen.
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Spectrum Pulse
for as much as this record retraces many of the same steps, there are seeds that show how Tove Lo can evolve going forward, and it certainly is more memorable overall - and again, I like having Tove Lo in pop music, she certainly seems to want to push harder.
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All Music
On BLUE LIPS, Lo refines her unmistakable sounds and moods more satisfyingly than she did on Lady Wood, and transforms betrayal and denial into some of her finest songs.
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The Red & Black
“BLUE LIPS (lady wood phase II)” brings a fresh set of songs to the electropop genre. For the Swedish artist’s third album, it’s an impressive spread of pensive tracks and an intriguing sequel to her past album, “Lady Wood.”
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Vibes of Silence
“Blue Lips” works extremely well as a collection of raw songs that maybe fall apart if we’re looking for clear hit, but that doesn’t really matter when you don’t care about commercial success like Tove Lo, who by the way has released one of the most sexual, free and addictive pop albums of 2017. Swedish artists keep winning and redefining pop music.
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mxdwn
As a whole, the concept album champions sexual liberation with Tove Lo’s care-free attitude.
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Sound Digest
Although the album is only a companion record to her sophomore effort Ladywood, Blue Lips reminds the public that Tove continues to pioneer a new role for women in the music industry, one tastefully explicit project at a time.
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Elias Pelcastre
Blue Lips feels like an album that requires several plays to decide which songs you like and don´t. However, I look forward to hitting replay.
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Diandra Reviews it All
She may sound like she is only for the good time, but she also exploring why we define good times according to mindlessness. Could it be because we over-think our days, and only give ourselves a mental break during a few, club nights? Discuss! Yet, as you converse, enjoy Tove Lo’s Blue Lips.
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My Shitty Music Opinions
It's such a massive improvement to Lady Wood it's shocking. Blue Lips makes Queen Of The Clouds hit harder, it gives Lady Wood more context and not seem like total nonsense, and makes Blue Lips itself in the process shine above and beyond her previous projects as well as most pop divas that struggled this year.
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Media Hype
A superb follow-up to Lady Wood that shows more versatility than its predecessor.
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Northern Transmissions
While the album has trouble quite matching the instant addiction of “Disco Tits,” it’s a fun listen that excels most when it’s personal rather than vague. Despite some blander moments on the record that drag it down, it’s one of the year’s strongest pop releases.
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Thomas Bleach
It’s the perfect follow on from the last record but it does just sound like a bunch of b-sides with a couple of stand out moments. These songs do have a cool edge to them which will come alive in her new live show and I can’t wait to hear some of these songs evolve.
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HiFi Magazine
The plus side is there are more plunges into hybrid rock, indie pop and underground EDM on this round, and that’s a good thing for an artist this eclectic, but in a world when Lorde is strangely shapeshifting into an emo Donna Summer and when a flush of acts like K.Flay are putting out similar drug reality tales, Tove Lo is sounding like she’s trailing in a lane she once dominated.
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Patreon
Well, this was... well, it was better than Lady Wood, but man, I wish this was more interesting.
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The Popjustice Forum
All the songs are genuinely good. Easily a contender for album the year, and I honestly don't get why I'm shocked. She's managed to draw me in with every album thus far.
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Mystic Sons
'Blue Lips' may have the occasional blip here and there, but overall it is a thoroughly enjoyable release. Keeping as much of the 'Lady Wood' sound as it can, this follow-up manages to impress and evolve in equal measure and delivers a possibly the raunchiest release of the year so far.
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