There are a couple of months still left in the year, but it feels safe to say right now that, as an album that bites off every bit as much as it can chew, and maybe a little more, Halsey‘s “The Great Impersonator” is 2024’s most unabashedly ambitious record by a major pop artist. It’s also the saddest, by about a country mile. One of the year’s best? Yes, that too.
It’s a four-hanky album, and really, the only thing preventing “The Great Impersonator” from becoming a full-on five-hankerchief effort is a recurring playfulness in just how sprawling, messy and multi-faceted the record is, not to mention how
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