Atavista

Forensic analysis aside, the album is still great, ranging from sweetness and playfulness to dark menace, from vintage soul to dark experimentalism. The title track has fuzzed-out ‘70s synths, a tight rhythm and a clean vocal from Glover. .... The ballads are fire too: Grande turns in a soaring performance on the gospel-inflected “Time,” and “Sweet Thang” is a harmony-loaded slow jam with a heaping medley of voices and a woozy guitar solo that could have been an outtake from Prince’s classic “Sign O’ the Times.”