Hopeless Fountain Kingdom - Halsey | Metacritic (66% - 8 reviews)

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Hopeless Fountain Kingdom - Metacritic Profile

(66/100 out of 8 generally favourable reviews)

 

Rolling Stone - 80%

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Halsey shows off all her wild musical ambitions on Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, a bold second album that consolidates all the strengths of her 2015 debut Badlands. 

 

NME - 80%

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Hopeless Fountain Kingdom might be defiantly ambitious, but it’s surprisingly cohesive. 

 

Consequence of Sound - 75%

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Ultimately, she knows the pitfalls of dating more than one gender better than anyone in pop, and those moments of insight are when Hopeless Fountain Kingdom truly stands out from the pack, but it’s also reassuring that Halsey (who tags herself “alternative” rather than “pop”) conceives herself as an album artist first. 

 

Pitchfork - 65%

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On an album full of radio experiments, some succeed--“100 Letters,” “Walls Could Talk” and “Alone” demonstrate the perennially fertile sound of alt-pop--and some inevitably fail. 

 

The Observer (UK) - 60%

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It’s not remotely bad; it certainly sounds just like one of the most hotly awaited pop albums of 2017. But you can discern, just off stage, the chorus of unignorable industry types bearing down on one bankable creative, advising this timely collaboration, that hot producer, this set of references. 

 

Spin - 60%

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For now, we’re left with a deeply imperfect and too-often derivative album that is not without its charms, but won’t exactly help form the connection with the average listener that Halsey long ago established with her core fanbase. 

 

The New York Times - 50%

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There isn’t a flicker of musical edge on this album, only a belief in the crowdsourcing of ideas. Where Halsey sets herself apart is in her subject matter and manner of delivery. 

 

PopMatters - 40%

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Where Badlands established Halsey as one of the more talented and dynamic artists of her generation, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom is both overambitious in theory and mundane in practice. 

[venusfly 17,885]

Deserves much more

[Irrelevant 20,278]

What is this mess  needs to be at least 70, f you popmatters 

[AMENiCURE 9,381]

Itll rise eventually plus this is way better than Witness' upcoming scores

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5 minutes ago, Irrelevant said:

What is this mess  needs to be at least 70, f you popmatters 

It deserves at least 72 for a pop album. That score is yet to rise.

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7 minutes ago, AMENiCURE said:

Itll rise eventually plus this is way better than Witness' upcoming scores

And what the **** does Witness have to do with this? Why the obsession with Katy?

[AMENiCURE 9,381]

2 minutes ago, Despacito said:

And what the **** does Witness have to do with this? Why the obsession with Katy?

NVM

[littlepotter 74,256]

They can choke

[RaRaRamen 1,358]

Did we listen to the same album?

[MonsterPaws 2,650]

wtf 

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

 to the critics. 

 

[Joga 3,813]

Oh god, they literally focused on the 'radio-pop ****' not the story she worked hard for.