eternal sunshine

named for the film, and structured a little like it: the record circles the same relationship from different distances rather than telling it in order. that is a real formal choice and it is what separates this from a straightforward break-up album.

sonically it is the coldest-sounding thing she has made — synth-forward, reverb-heavy, with a disco pulse under several tracks and almost no acoustic instrumentation. the warmth is entirely in the vocal, which is mixed unusually close against all that space.

it arrived after a four-year gap during which she had been mostly acting, and it plays like someone who had time to decide what they wanted to say. it was followed in 2025 by a deluxe edition, brighter days ahead, that extended rather than padded it.