Album Review: . [PERIOD] by Kesha

The American singer re-introduces herself to the world on her sixth studio album Earlier this year Lady Gaga released Mayhem, a stylish, punchy, deliberately nostalgic record that emulates the things audiences found so appealing about her in the first place. Kesha's 2009-2013 run may not be as universally praised, but the hedonistic persona and garish sound design played their part in hyperpop's creation, so the space between these eras is fertile ground for . (PERIOD), her first album as an independent artist.

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Give me liberty or give me death. Appropriately released on Independence Day, Kesha's Period (stylized as .) marks her departure from RCA Records and Dr. Luke after a series of bitter legal battles and allegations of abuse/defamation were ultimately settled in 2023. Kesha has referred to Period as the first album she's ever made where she felt "truly free", and that sense of liberation emanates from every corner of her sixth full-length LP.

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On 6 July 2017, Kesha released “Praying”, and almost everyone who heard it wept. Having established herself as the trashy party-rock pop diva of the 2010s (quite literally: her first single “TikTok” topped the US Billboard charts the first week of January 2010), Kesha‘s extremely public statements and lawsuits regarding her alleged treatment by producer Dr. Luke were nothing short of harrowing.

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The title of Kesha's sixth studio album--her first to be released independently--suggests that the singer is pressing a symbolic reset button. Throughout Period, though, Kesha seems torn between resurrecting the unruly spark of her early work or continuing in a more introspective, experimental direction, a la 2023's Gag Order. The results are, at times, perfectly listenable, but the sheer amount of visible flop sweat pouring from these 11 tracks is nothing short of distracting.

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