The ABBA-influenced disco banger ‘Look What You’ve Done’, perhaps a loose sequel to Larsson’s smash 2017 Clean Bandit collaboration ‘Symphony’, definitely sounds ready to conquer the charts. Watch live streams, get artist updates, buy tickets, and RSVP to shows with Bandsintown.
Only the plodding ‘Stick With You’ lacks her usual spark. Find Clean Bandit tour dates and concerts in your city.
And she isn’t afraid to get a little risqué, telling a distracted partner on ‘I’m Right Here’: “I could have two girls in this bed / Wouldn’t even get your attention.”Įlsewhere, ‘Poster Girl’ blends elegant electro-pop and slightly grittier R&B, with a dash of EDM on the Marshmello-produced ‘Wow’ and a Young Thug feature on ‘Talk About Love’. Thankfully, even a loved-up Larsson is too cool to give us saccharine Valentine’s Day sentiments the glistening, mid-tempo tune ‘Need Someone’ wrong-foots you slightly when she sings: “I’m happy, I don’t need your love / I’m happy, but I want you.” It’s the sort of subtly empowering line that really suits Larsson, a straight-talking pop star known for promoting sex-positivity and calling out toxic masculinity. Nine tracks later, on the equally dreamy ‘FFF’, the Swedish star delivers an even more dazzling lyric, asking, “Is there a spark for us, or is it just purely platonic? / Is this a story arc?”, before concluding: “It’d be iconic.” ‘FFF’ turns out to be Larsson’s shorthand for “falling for a friend”, which as many of us know, can definitely be messy. Now this stirring and powerful song by Clean Bandit is available as a duet for violin and cello, or violin and viola Symphony for duet is complex enough to intrigue any advanced player, yet the resulting effect is seamless and passionate it’s a wonderful addition to any event or recital repertoire. “Here I am, lost in Love Me Land.” This evocative line, which almost sounds ripped from a lost disco classic, introduces the album’s recurring theme: love in all its ecstatic, messy and sometimes frustrating glory. “Never thought I would love again,” she sings blissfully. Her third record begins with last year’s ‘Love Me Land’, a stunning dance-pop song that deserved to become a huge hit like Larsson’s 2015 breakthrough singles ‘Never Forget You’ and ‘Lush Life’, but somehow didn’t. When Larsson sings “this girl’s having fun” on standout banger ‘Look What You’ve Done’, you can tell she means it. Though ‘Poster Girl’ arrives nearly two-and-a-half years after its lead single, the faintly masochistic R&B bop ‘Ruin My Life’, it doesn’t sound tentative or desperate. “You can always find excuses not to have a release, which is what I’ve been doing for, like, four years,” she told NME last month. Even Zara Larsson concedes that this album has been a long time coming.
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