The party album as coming-of-age novel: Melodrama compresses one house party into a cycle of euphoria, spiral and morning-after clarity, with Jack Antonoff's production leaving room for Lorde's strange phrasing to lead. "Green Light" runs on the wrong chords correctly; "Liability" cuts deepest at lowest volume. A sophomore album with no sophomore doubts.
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