Harmony Tividad makes Lifetime feel like Girlpool memory caught in hyperpop sunlight

Harmony Tividad’s Lifetime receives 29 June review attention, and the record sounds like a soft-focus negotiation between the bare emotional immediacy of Girlpool and the hyperpop irony of her recent solo work. Pitchfork frames the album as a return to indie-pop roots, but not a simple retreat. With Yves Rothman executive-producing, Lifetime uses pastel guitars, synths, vocoder, dream-pop haze and dissociative lyric fragments to explore toxic relationships, self-performance and the difficulty of knowing who you are when you are not playing a role. That is fertile ground for Tividad, whose best writing has always made vulnerability feel awkward in the right way. The album seems to hover between exposure and pose, confession and camera angle. Lifetime sounds like someone smiling through an existential spiral while the reverb tries to make the pain look pretty.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/harmony-tividad-lifetime/