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Memoir of a Sparklemuffin Image
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  • Summary: The second full-length release from British actor/singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse features contributions from Brad Cook, Cigarettes After Sex's Greg Gonzalez, Courtship's Eli Hirsch, Foxygen's Jonathan Rado, Rick Nowels, and Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire from TTRRUUCES.
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  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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  1. 80
    It can, at times, feel like you’re on an interminable carousel circling round and round again, but there are moments of pause. Every time you’re about to fall off the ride, a song will crop up grabbing your attention once more.
  2. Sep 12, 2024
    80
    Memoir of a Sparklemuffin greatly expands and dramatizes the sound and scope of her relationship laments, putting it in the territory of Lana Del Rey and Angel Olsen's most extravagant works.
  3. Sep 12, 2024
    70
    An often whimsical, occasionally scattershot yet wryly self-aware collection of songs which run a musical gamut from Lana Del Rey’s Old Hollywood-channelling balladry to grunge pop – or more succinctly, much like a late noughties Tumblr given the same name.
  4. 70
    While the 18-tracks teeter along the fine line of becoming slightly too long at certain points, it continues to offer an intimate compilation of her thoughts and emotions.
  5. Sep 13, 2024
    63
    Suki Waterhouse ends up with an overstuffed sophomore album with plenty of bright and scrappy highlights but too many unadventurous tracks that overshadow them.