Gomez and Blanco are in love: the propulsive, all-consuming kind that gets yelled from the mountaintop or the vocal booth. Or, in this instance, both.
Their cuddly, collaborative musical lovechild plumbs unfathomably cheesy depths, a smug 34-minute slog that often smothers their own success.
Blanco penned some of pop’s most inventive comebacks of the last 20 years, and his production is often gorgeous here.
Gomez, meanwhile, is one of the most impressive multi-disciplinary stars.
The shadows of Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey loom large over ‘Sunset Blvd’ and ‘Cowboy’, but these tracks are timid by comparison.
It all feels a little anonymous, which is ironic because listeners have been invited to be part of a genuinely intimate moment.
Perhaps it says more about the cynical nature of the world that it isn’t ready to receive an album made with love, about love, and armed to the teeth with it.
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