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For Dua Lipa, 2020 began with a puddle of tears and it ended the same way. When her second album leaked in April, the singer sobbed her way through an Instagram video explaining that sheâd brought the release of Future Nostalgia forward by a week. She didnât know if the early days of a pandemic-induced lockdown was the right time for a record so heavily calibrated for the dancefloor. But she neednât have worried: in a year fraught with anxiety and fear, a shot of future nostalgia was just the thing.
The album fizzes with coiled energy, each of the 11 songs delivering a euphoric high over an irresistible beat. The track that gives the album its name contains the brassy line: âYou want what now looks like, let me give you a taste.â Itâs true, but itâs also not â the album owes a great debt to the musical past, nostalgic itself for the costume jewelled glitz of disco and the Day-Glo of 80s powerpop and