Where most of her pop peers churn out steady streams of unabashedly uncut id, pleasure for its own sake, Halsey has steadily moved in the other direction – a trek that’s culminated in this alternately brooding and self-judgmental masterwork of pure super-ego. Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (Capitol) That’s why it’s at the top of our list below, because if we are living in a time when Trent Reznor is gonna make it a habit of producing pop albums with multiplatinum artists, we are indeed living in remarkable times. The angst wasn’t reserved for strictly the naturally loud crowd either, as commercial pop continued to surprise and enthrall in the form of Olivia Rodrigo and Halsey, who took a cement brick to the glass ceiling by recruiting Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to produce her incredible 3rd or 4th album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. Whether it was Iron Maiden achieving a late career high with their double-length samurai epic Senjutsu, Turnstile pinpointing the precise line of balance between Cave-In and The Cure on the brilliant “Glow On”, the anonymous dreamcore of The Armed’s second LP Ultrapop or the reinvention of Buffalo metalcore mavens Every Time I Die on their brilliant ninth LP Radical, creativity through aggression was cathartic way to survive this dumpster fire year.
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