Forever Neverland

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AlbumOct 19 / 201814 songs, 44m 55s
Electropop Contemporary R&B Alt-Pop
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Karen Marie Ørsted’s pop ascendance happened so fast, she could hardly catch her breath. A year after releasing her debut album, the Danish singer struck gold with a feature on Major Lazer\'s “Lean On,” a global hit that broke streaming records and earned MØ collaborations with Justin Bieber, Snakehips, and Charli XCX. Despite pressure to release a follow-up, she wouldn’t be rushed. Instead, she left for Los Angeles to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in California. Her experience was bittersweet. On *Forever Neverland*—a nod to Hollywood’s obsession with youth—she serves up big, euphoric pop songs that are both soul-wrenching and sunny, and that wrestle to reconcile the city’s natural beauty (“Sun in Our Eyes,” featuring Diplo) with its superficiality (“California, you’re aware that everybody wants ya,” she sings on \"Purple Like the Summer Rain”). The album’s lone interlude will resonate with anyone who’s spent time on Sunset Blvd.: “Right now all I want to do is call up my mom/And get my ass out of West Hollywood.”

6.0 / 10

The Danish electro-pop chart-topper’s second album is dedicated to the quest for eternal youth; too often, though, her overbearing club songs merely kick against the onset of adulthood.

8 / 10

On the second record from Karen Marie Ørsted, her talent for pop songwriting continues to shine

This intriguingly offbeat artist is best known for her Major Lazer collabs, but this album proves she's much more than someone to lean on.

Richard Ashcroft - Natural Rebel

She’s never looked more comfortable in her own skin.

The clear goal is that, by revisiting her past declarations of peace and love, Ono can highlight how little has changed today. Meanwhile Danish pop star MØ fills her second record with safely idiosyncratic bangers

Following the release of her 2014 debut No Mythologies to Follow, Danish pop singer/songwriter MØ hit it big with a pair of singles courtesy of electronic dance group Major Lazer, topping charts around the world with multi-platinum anthems "Lean On" (2015) and "Cold Water" (2016).

Scandi electro-pop has never looked so good; MØ returns with her second full length album Forever Neverland after four years since her debut.

8 / 10

(RCA)

9.0 / 10

MØ brings the right kind of quirks to pop for her sophomore return in our review of the poppy but emotional 'Forever Neverland'

Album Reviews: MØ - Forever Neverland

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