Tove Lo - Dirt Femme

Tove Lo has always been an artist reluctant to accept others' labels, so she went ahead and created her own. Her first album on her own Pretty Swede imprint, Dirt Femme arrives nearly a decade after she wedded darkly danceable pop and frank confessions on the global hit "Habits." Years later, she's still thriving in that niche. "No One Dies from Love" announces that Sunshine Kitty's respite from heartache is over with pulsing melodrama ("No one dies from love/Guess I'll be the first") that reaffirms few artists can make misery sound as seductive as Lo does. Even the album's happier songs have a dark side: On "True Romance," a love that's cozy and so intense it's worth killing for are one and the same. "2 Die 4," which beckons a lover on adventures, somehow makes a sample of Crazy Frog's cover of the classic electronic pop instrumental "Popcorn" sound moody. Dirt Femme's post-pandemic return to the club generates sparks with "Call on Me," an unapologetically physical piece of dance pop