Gomez's first studio album in five years showcases subtlely varied sonic influences conveyed in a delightful soft dance-pop formula, teaching how to be powerful in the most gentle and smart way. The album starts with a vibrant african drum, paving the way to a mildly enjoyable title track, that keeps on doing its thing until the end. There are no particularly bright moments, Rare is an homogeneous song, the chord progression never changes throughout the different structural units, the chorus is not memorable and shows a pretty lazy composition, yet it accounts as for its opening track duties. 6.3/10 Dance Again immediately feels more interesting. But it's when the electronic bass gets into a magnetic chorus that your brain is irrevocably infected in a sinusoidal groove. The second pre-chorus is the best part of the whole track, it creates a tension that is so satisfactorily solved by the second chorus. Fluid and groovy, this track has that something ext...
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