Alongside the new Vampire Weekend, the album I’m most looking forward to this spring is Dua Lipa’s latest. That’s because the pop singer-songwriter simply does not miss.

Her self-titled 2017 debut was wall-to-wall bangers, and she somehow topped it with 2020’s Future Nostalgia. That album, a disco revival with a decidedly modern sensibility, dropped right when the COVID quarantine started and helped keep legions of fans sane during that difficult period.

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