The trauma-processing album that chooses lightness: Sweetener leans on Pharrell's off-kilter bounce for half its runtime, and the gamble works on "God is a woman" and the title track. "no tears left to cry" turns the Manchester bombing's aftermath into defiant UK garage-pop. Uneven, but its best moments float.
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