Album Review: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Save for the last two tracks, Future Nostalgia is an immaculate revival of forgotten sounds and subgenres from decades past, and a captivating ode to the glory days of disco and dance-pop. Dua Lipa might seem on paper to be an unlikely candidate for such a convincing throwback, but it is clear from the care put into her lyrics and performances on this record that her infatuation with pop music’s history is entirely genuine. It is this that makes her imitations of these styles so flattering, and the talent on display across the album leaves no doubt as to why her variations on the pop formula almost entirely work to perfection. For as many dated musical experiments as are strewn about the charts of yesteryear, enough timeless material has survived so as to show why such trends became popular in the first place, and it is these paragons of pop which Dua Lipa innovates upon to create her masterpiece.