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Teddy Swims Tries Almost Every Style — and Usually Succeeds — on ‘I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)’: Album Review
'Lose Control' singer Teddy Swims' 'I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)' is a bit overambitious stylistically, but the great songs are stellar.
One of the downsides of this era of music is the way a smash song can overshadow the artist: A singer who’s been earning their chops for more than a dozen years — like Teddy Swims has — can find themselves filed alongside a teenaged one-hit wonder who’s never recorded outside their bedroom. A much more elaborate undertaking than its predecessor, “Therapy” part 2 employs many of the same top-shelf songwriters and producers (several of whom also worked on Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet”) but super-producer Julian Bunetta is clearly in the driver’s seat, with major contributions from Jeff Gittleman, John Ryan and Mikky Ekko as well. But the centerpiece of the album is unquestionably Swims’ stellar, versatile voice — while his attempts at multiple genres don’t always land (particularly on the gigantic pop songs, two of which have Imagine Dragons-style “WOAH-OH-OH” hooks), it’s more often due to oversized production and never because of his singing.
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