I liked this more than I expected to: it's clearly taken a page from the Dark Twisted Fantasy playbook, wielding arty structures, electronic fuckery, and personal soulbaring to keep you off-guard. Haunted in particular is a wonderfully strange midnight wanderer that dares to jettison verses and hooks to get under your skin.
But it doesn't have enough ideas to keep it rolling: once it blows its load around track 3 you get the Blow/No Angel/Partition run that's just treads water on icy minimalism, banking on Beyonce's vocal acrobatics to prop up underfed songs. I admire the strongest moves, but the whole thing's uneven at best 3/5
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