"Head Above Water" Among Pitchfork's "Worst Albums of 2019"

So lame... worst album? God they don't know good music nowadays..

My problem with this album is narrowed down to its second half. The first half of it is bop after bop, even Dumb Blonde, that doesn't really fit into the album, is a great solid track. After IWIM, it just goes downhill for me. Souvenir is good, Crush is pretty alright, Goddess is lyrically meh, Bigger Wow is pretty forgettable (nothing special about the song), and LMI is just a skip for me. Warrior comes at the end to rescue the album, but it's not enough after the album's pace has reached a point of becoming boring. To me, this has to do with what she said in previous interviews about falling in love and not knowing what to do, and there came Goddess, BW and LMI. She even said not feeling inspired. I know there are people who like BW and Goddess, and some very few enjoy LMI, but this is my humble opinion. Had the second half of this album been as its first half, well, lets just say we could've gotten her best work to date.

I still like it more than AL and Goodbye Lullaby, since it's got stronger material than her 4th album and is much more cohesive than the mess that was AL, but doesn't beat TBDT, LG or UMS.