The pastel rebound after reputation's armor: Lover sprawls across eighteen tracks of high-functioning romanticism, from "Cruel Summer"'s vault-the-fence chorus — a hit years after the fact — to the title track's first-dance waltz. Too long and too sweet by design, but the best songs here rank with her best anywhere.
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