The Pigeon Needs a Bath

Four years ago, Carly Rae Jepsen emerged as this generation’s preeminent chronicler of old-fashioned love stories. Her songs are hopeful and romantic, antithetical to the cynicism of the modern age. The Canadian musician’s third LP, E•MO•TION, was an album of extremes: all-encompassing love and heartache. It was lightning in a bottle, cinematic in scope and razor-sharp in execution. E•MO•TION firmly established Jepsen as an underground hero, and it also set the bar for a follow-up impossibly high. How could anything possibly measure up to all the superlatives that have trailed the fan-dubbed Queen Of Everything?