What an amazing improvement from their other albums! Had this on repeat since it’s release and I’m obsessed 😍

Pretty good produced album, with some decent tracks on. It’s grown a lot on me and now listen to it frequently.

This album is daily listen for me, so happy i was able to hear the songs live in London !!

Pale Waves stay on target to keep pushing forward with their chaotic pop where in only four years’ time they have debuted three studio albums. Joining the previous two works is ‘Unwanted’ which showcases more frenetic pop, odes to the 2000s punk/pop era while graciously rounding off with mid-to-late ‘90s rock and indie.

Opening “Lies” strikes a chord with the fans as an easily recognisable angry-rock anthem, but it’s not all the same; this time there are more acoustic and piano-ballads tracks to accompany this boisterousness. This inconspicuous softer side is found in tracks like “The Hard War”, then leading to more upbeat indie-scene anthem “Jealousy” which finds itself more opposed and lyrically bleak compared to some of their earlier work. It’s chaotic deliberately to emulate the title and theme of the album. “Clean” is a classic 2000s track, along with “Without You” and “Alone”. These have an air of Britpop and American punk rock all in one. Following an era filled with Blink-182, Texas, Dido and others. “Act My Age” seems like an actual homage to that era. The song “Numb” is actually more romantic and slower than previous renditions to their earlier work – exercising more in terms of clearer vocals and lyrics then boosted by sound.

Getting us back to the grunge is, “You’re So Vain,” “Only Problem,” and “Reasons to Live” which have a chaotic melody surrounding them. Which detours back to what we have come to expect from the foursome band. Baron-Gracie’ voice is more assured in this album, using the previous ‘WHO AM I?’ album as a plateau for self-discovery. Admittedly Baron-Gracie does not have the best vocal range but her sincerity and rawness is what sells the songs. The album is assuredly harking back to the debut which still remains the most popular release of the band. “So Sick (Of Missing You)” is a romance-laden soundtrack song to heartbreak and weary glass-eyed nights. The album is a more confident version of ‘WHO AM I?’ with the quartet denoting who their contemporaries and influences are. If anything it comes off as more visceral; an example where chaos is necessary to emphasise the message.

Unlike the grumpy other reviewer I quite like this. Ok it’s only 3 songs so far but I think the music scene needs guitar bands that tap your feet and have great choruses. It’s feel good music and in an otherwise bleak world currently that’s no bad thing. Keep up the good work Pale Waves!

Sounds like a 2000s emo band rip off now, Machine gun Kelly is so lame and is such a twot for killing the return of this genre, shame really. No one will be Blink or Avril Lavigne they’re far superior.